{"name": "Alex Haley", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "American writer and author of the popular 1970s book *Roots* which was adapted into a record setting TV mini-series.\r\n\r\n\"The giving and getting, the sense of belonging and contributing to something larger than yourself, to something that began before you were born and will go on after you die, can make it possible for you to accept life in a way that makes you wish the whole world could realize how easy it is to feel as you do, and wonder why they don\u2019t. That\u2019s what having roots\u2014and writing Roots\u2014has done for me. I pray that reading it\u2014and then reaching out for their families to join in a search of their own\u2014will do the same for everyone.\" ~ Alex Haley (A Candid Conversation With Murray Fisher, January 1977)"}, "remote_ids": {"viaf": "80007399", "wikidata": "Q296069", "isni": "0000000121413152", "bookbrainz": "5ed0de95-27b8-4a90-a9c3-3c4157b426b4", "goodreads": "17434", "imdb": "nm0355077", "lc_naf": "n78089814", "librarything": "haleyalex", "opac_sbn": "CFIV098068", "amazon": "B000APX7DC"}, "birth_date": "August 11, 1921", "personal_name": "Alex Haley", "photos": [7253331, 7253330, 7253268, 7253332, -1], "death_date": "February 10, 1992", "links": [{"url": "http://www.alexhaley.com", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Alex Haley Roots Foundation"}, {"url": "http://www.alex-haley.com", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Alex Haley Tribute Site"}, {"url": "http://www.chrishaleyonline.com", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Chris Haley Online"}], "source_records": ["promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2020-07-30", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-03-31"], "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "alternate_names": ["Alexander Murray Palmer Haley", "Alex HALEY", "HALEY Alex", "HALEY ALEX."], "key": "/authors/OL217730A", "latest_revision": 40, "revision": 40, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-31T19:46:56.683534"}}