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| ISBN 13 | 9780099362814 |
| ISBN 10 | 99362813 |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Book Description | Now a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Laurence FishburneTracing his ancestry through six generations slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award |
| About the Author | Alex Haley taught himself to write during a twenty-year stint in the US Coast Guard. He became its first Chief Journalist, a position he held until he retired in 1959 to become a magazine writer and interviewer. His first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, after which he spent twelve years researching and writing Roots, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.Alex Haley died in Seattle, Washington in 1992. |
| Author | Alex Haley |
| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 1994 |
| Number of Pages | 704.0 |
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