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[1] [2] The miniseries is an adaptation of the 1993 novel Queen: The Story of an American Family, by Alex Haley and David Stevens. The novel is based on the life of Queen Jackson Haley, Haley's paternal grandmother. [3] Alex Haley died in February 1992 before completing the novel. It was later finished by David Stevens and published in 1993.
Queen: The Story of an American Family is a 1993 partly factual historical novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens.. It brought back to the consciousness of many white Americans the plight of the children of the plantation: the offspring of black slave women and their white masters, who were legally the property of their fathers.
Haley's boyhood home at Henning, Tennessee, in 2007. Alex Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, on August 11, 1921, and was the eldest of three brothers (the other two being George and Julius) and a half-sister (from his father's second marriage).
The second oldest of Alex Haley's four living grandchildren, Bill Haley was 28 when the author died. He continues to carry on the family's name by treasuring the legacy of his grandfather, whom he ...
A related film, Alex Haley's Queen, is based on the life of Queen Jackson Haley, who was Alex Haley's paternal grandmother. In 2016, a remake of the original miniseries, with the same name, was commissioned by the History channel and screened by the channel on Memorial Day.
Queen Elizabeth II with Prince George and Princess Charlotte insetted. Shutterstock (2) Proud great-grandmother! Queen Elizabeth II inadvertently showed off a previously unreleased photo of Prince ...
Queen Elizabeth was head of state for more than 70 years, but behind the scenes she was a daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Mama Flora's Family is a 1997 historical fiction novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens. The story spans from the 1920s to the 1970s as it follows Flora, a daughter of poor black Mississippi sharecroppers, and her descendants. Haley died before completing the novel, with Stevens finishing the story line. [citation needed]