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Haley, Alex. Roots

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Personal name headingHaley, Alex. Roots
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Other standard no.http://dbpedia.org/resource/Roots:_The_Saga_of_an_American_Family
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Form of workBiographical fiction Historical fiction Novels Nonfiction novels
Beginning date1976
Found inDelmont, Matthew F. Making Roots, 2016.
Wikipedia, May 17, 2017 (Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976; was originally described as "faction" and was sold in the non-fiction section of bookstores)
Roots website, May 17, 2017: author (In 1976, after twelve years of research, Alex published Roots, a novel based loosely on his family's history)
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Publishers weekly, August 27, 2007: page 86 (Roots; Alex Haley's groundbreaking historical novel (based on his own family's history))