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Welcome to the Daily with still Stein here on anchor. Today, we're going to do the writer's devotional Happy Wednesday, and it's about 365 inspirational exercises, ideas, tips, and motivations on writing by author Amy Peters. We're going to continue with Saturday Books to Read Sunday Writing Prompt, and let me see here. I think we covered biography, I believe we did, or maybe we did not.
So I'm going to start with Friday biography, then I'm going to move on to Saturday Books to Read in part two, Sunday Writing Prompt, and then the wrap up will be the ending where I'll discuss news and announcements for me as an author and things that are coming up for our show. So Happy Wednesday, everyone. We're going to begin with biography today, Friday biography. So let's do a little song here.
Friday biography. The music is all provided by GarageBand. Friday biography. In my writing as much as I could, I tried to find the good and praise it.
This is a quote by author Alex Hailey. Alexander Murray Palmer Hailey from 1921 to 1992 was born in Ithaca, New York, where his father was a graduate student at Cornell University, and his mother was a music teacher. Through the stories of his Tennessee grandparents, Hailey first heard about Kuntakinte, his African ancestor who had come to Shoren, Maryland aboard a slave ship from Gambia, inspired no further research. Hailey was able to document Kinta's life, a 10 year research process, which he later turned into roots, the novel that won him a special award from the Pulitzer Board in 1977.
So if you remember, this is author Alex Hailey, who was the author of the Price Winning Novel Roots, and we'll be right back. And now we're continuing with the Friday biography, which I believe we had covered in the last show that we did, but I wanted to review. So we're going to finish it up here on anchor because anchor goes in segments, so I do apologize. So let's continue with the segment.
So as we were saying, Alex Hailey wrote the Pulitzer, he won the Pulitzer Board in 1977 for his work of, he was documenting the life of his African ancestor, Kuntakinte, and Hailey was enrolled at Alcorn State University at each 15. Two years later, he dropped out of college. His father felt that Hailey needed some discipline and convinced his son to enlist in the military when he turned 18. Hailey's writing career began after he entered the U.S.
Coast Guard in 1939. During his enlistment, he was paid by other sailors to write love letters to their girlfriends. He retired from the military after 20 years of service and then began his own writing career. Becoming a senior editor for Reader's Digest, his first successful, successfully published article was an interview appearing in Playboy magazine in 1962, and he quickly became known as a consummate interviewer.
Sorry, his first major work was published in 1965, the autobiography, excuse me, a Malcolm X, which he co-wrote. So he has quite extensive repertoire, and he lived from 1921 through 1992, but had an extensive repertoire just with his work alone of roots, and then he of course went on to the military. His father thought he could join the military, so he dropped out of Alcorn State University before he had done that, and his father asked him to join the Coast Guard. He joined an extensive writer, reviewer, interviewer, and then he wrote the autobiography of Malcolm X in 1965, and we'll be right back.
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