Awards & Winners

Alex Haley

Date of Birth 11-August-1921
Place of Birth Ithaca
(Tompkins County, New York, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Alexander Murray Palmer Haley
Profession Writer, Journalist, Novelist, Author, Screenwriter
Alexander Murray Palmer "Alex" Haley was an American writer. He is best known as the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family and as the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Awards by Alex Haley

Check all the awards nominated and won by Alex Haley.

1977


Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards
Honored for : Roots: The Saga of an American Family
(A special award for Roots, the story of a black family from its origins in Africa through seven generations to the present day in America.)

1966


Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Honored for : The Autobiography of Malcolm X