First known for his work as co-author and editor of the highly regarded Autobiography of Malcolm X, Haley's biggest success stemmed from his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, 'Roots: The Saga of an American Family.' Extensively researched and based in part on Haley's own African roots, the work became a national … More bestseller and, in addition to the Pulitzer, won the Springarn Medal in 1977. After retiring from the service, Haley moved to Los Angeles, finding fulltime employment as a freelance writer. Educated at Elizabeth City Teacher's College in North Carolina, Haley became a journalist while serving in the United States Coast Guard from 1939 to 1959. This is history at its most compelling-from the Irish sod to the settlement of the South from the Trail of Tears to the battlefield at Manassas from the agonies of slavery to the tribulations of freedom-all rendered with the eye for telling detail and the sense of historical significance that readers have come to expect of Haley.Ī miniseries adaptation called Alex Haley’s Queen and starring Halle Berry, Danny Glover, Tim Daly, Ann-Margret and Ossie Davis aired on CBS on February 14, 1993.Alex Haley's full name was Alexander Palmer Haley.
His adolescent attraction to the beautiful and strongwilled slave named Easter blossoms into a powerful and lasting love, and from their passionate union comes Queen-the heroine of the tale, Alex Haley’s grandmother. James’s son, Jass Jackson, inherits the plantation just as the genteel, well-ordered antebellum world begins to crumble. He establishes his grand plantation, The Forks of Cypress, in Alabama, while Andrew ascends to the White House, and the rumblings that will explode into the Civil War gather force.
The two men become business partners and James Jackson makes his fortune. From there we travel with Jackson to Nashville, where he meets Andrew Jackson, the future president of the United States. The story begins in Ireland, where Haley’s white great-great-grandfather, James Jackson, Sr., is born. Alex Haley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots, tells about his great-great-grandfather who came to Alabama from Ireland, married a slave and then fathered a daughter-Haley’s grandmother, Queen.
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