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Alex Haley

1921 - 1992

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Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (* 11. August 1921 in Ithaca, New York; † 10. Februar 1992 in Seattle, Washington) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Weltweit bekannt wurde er 1976 durch seinen Roman Wurzeln ("Roots: The Saga of an American Family"), in dem er die zuvor nur mündlich tradierte angebliche Geschichte seiner Vorfahren erzählte, beginnend mit Kunta Kinte, der 1767 aus dem heutigen Gambia als Sklave in die damalige britische Kolonie Maryland verschleppt worden sein soll. Mehr auf Wikipedia lesen

His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2024). Alex Haley is the 2,458th most popular schriftsteller (up from 2,685th in 2024), the 3,532nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,393rd in 2019) and the 281st most popular American Schriftsteller.

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Among Schriftstellers

Among schriftstellers, Alex Haley ranks 2,458 out of 7,302. Before him are Maria Skobtsova, Pavel Kohout, Tang Xianzu, James M. Cain, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, and William Auld. After him are Caesarius of Heisterbach, Apollonius Dyscolus, Dares Phrygius, Jules Supervielle, Juan de Valdés, and Ron Kovic.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Alex Haley ranks 154. Before him are Alphonse Massamba-Débat, Manitas de Plata, Louis Lachenal, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Malcolm Arnold, and Sixto Durán Ballén. After him are Esther Williams, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Deanna Durbin, Eugenio Coșeriu, Georges Wilson, and Lionel Terray. Among people deceased in 1992, Alex Haley ranks 106. Before him are Néstor Almendros, Wang Hongwen, Jean Dieudonné, Allen Newell, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, and Fritz Leiber. After him are Tevfik Esenç, Jim Garrison, Arthur Cronquist, František Tomášek, Franco Cristaldi, and Lenny Montana.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alex Haley ranks 3,532 out of 20,380. Before him are James M. Cain (1892), Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), Carla Bley (1936), Lisa Edelstein (1966), Joe Rosenthal (1911), and Stephen Paddock (1953). After him are Carl W. Stalling (1891), Basil Poledouris (1945), Ron Kovic (1946), William Hoyt (1875), Richard Kuklinski (1935), and Kelly Bishop (1944).

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Among Schriftstellers In United States

Among schriftstellers born in United States, Alex Haley ranks 281. Before him are Djuna Barnes (1892), Dorothy Parker (1893), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1950), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Fritz Leiber (1910), and James M. Cain (1892). After him are Ron Kovic (1946), Forrest J Ackerman (1916), Vonda N. McIntyre (1948), Eben Alexander (1953), Kate Chopin (1850), and Gardner Fox (1911).

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