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Alex was the oldest of three brothers and a sister. Other sailors would pay him to write love letters to their girlfriends. He started his military career working in the mess hall; he finished as chief petty officer and the first chief journalist in the Coast Guard, a position created in recognition of his ability.

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After retiring from the military in , he began his writing career in earnest, and eventually became a senior editor of Reader's Digest. He conducted the first interview for Playboy magazine with Miles Davis in the September issue. He had many notable interviews, including Martin Luther King Jr. It described the path that Malcolm X followed from street criminal to national spokesman for the Nation of Islam.

It was the culmination of fifty in-depth interviews he conducted with Malcolm X between and Roots was eventually published in 37 languages, and he was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize for it in That same year, ABC adapted Roots into a miniseries that would become a smash hit.

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He married three times. His first wife was Nannie Virginia Branch ; [4] their marriage produced children and lasted for twenty-two years — His second wife was Juliette Collins , whom he married in , the marriage lasting through He was married to Dr. Myran Lewis , a writer, from until his death in Alex Haley died on February 10, , in Seattle, Washington, [5] [6] from a heart attack.

Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning.