Lamar Alexander, a Republican United States Senator from 2003 to 2021, was Governor of Tennessee in 1986 when the Alex Haley Museum was created. Alex Haley would have been 100 ...

Alex Haley in 1977. Credit...Keystone Press/Alamy Supported by By Michael Patrick Hearn In 1959, long before his books “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” and “Roots” made him famous ...

That author was Alex Haley, whose love for Knoxville and the East Tennessee region was part of what inspired him to build a home in nearby Norris, where he spent much of his later years.

"Find the good and praise it," the best-known saying attributed to world-renowned author Alex Haley, was the theme of the night at the Museum of Appalachia's Heroes of Southern Appalachia Award ...

"Find the good and praise it," the best-known saying attributed to world-renowned author Alex Haley, was the theme of the night at the Museum of Appalachia's Heroes of Southern Appalachia Award ...

Local historians and Black leaders are reexamining the legacy of Alex Haley after a new book revealed discrepancies in an interview the author published with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

John Koehler, founder of Koehler Books, which is publishing the novel ... she endured with inspiration from "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Haley. A mixture of Malcolm's determination ...

In the office of the late Alex Haley, author of “Roots,” hung a picture of a turtle sitting on a fence post. It reminded ...

It was heartwarming to read about Henry Winkler’s supportive advice for a first-time author (“It’s Hard ... my table—until I realized that Alex Haley was sitting right next to me.