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Alex Haley

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Born: 8/11/1921
Birthplace: Ithaca, New York

Pulitzer Prize-winning author best known for Roots (1976), his ancestral saga encompassing the entire African-American experience, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965).

Died: 2/10/1992

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