He was the first chief journalist in the Coast Guard, the rating having been expressly created for him in recognition of his literary ability. He later advanced to chief petty officer and held this rank until his retirement from the Coast Guard in 1959. By 1949 he had become a petty officer first-class in the rating of a journalist. Coast Guard to allow him to transfer into the field of journalism. He said that the greatest enemy he and his crew faced during their long voyages was not the Japanese forces but rather boredom.Īfter World War II, Haley petitioned the U.S. During his enlistment other sailors often paid him to write love letters to their girlfriends. It was during his service in the Pacific theater of operations that Haley taught himself the craft of writing stories. Later he was promoted to the rate of petty officer third-class in the rating of steward, one of the few ratings open to blacks at that time. It was adapted as a miniseries, Alex Haley's Queen, broadcast in 1993. Haley had requested that David Stevens, a screenwriter, complete it the book was published as Queen: The Story of an American Family. He was working on a second family history novel at his death. Haley's first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with Malcolm X. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history.
ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
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