![]() ![]() When I entered Hamilton College in the fall of 1968, I was determined to be a writer, so I signed up for Haley’s writing course, not knowing what to expect. ![]() Haley was eternally grateful for such generous encouragement from the distinguished author.Īlex Haley, whose centenary we mark this year, was my James Baldwin. Only James Baldwin replied, showing up at Haley’s place unannounced one afternoon and chatting with him. ![]() In 1959, long before his books “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” and “Roots” made him famous, an aspiring writer named Alex Haley, fresh out of the Coast Guard, wrote to six prominent Black writers in Greenwich Village for pointers on how to break into publishing. ![]()
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