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Alex Haley author 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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