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Alex Haley: 1921-1992

Alex Haley: 1921-1992 Wilma Dykeman Appalachian Heritage, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 1992, pp. 6-8 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1992.0050 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438367/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:38 GMT from JHU Libraries Alex Haley: 1921-1992 Wilma Dykeman To be a citizen of the world is also to be a citizen of Appalachia. No one fulfilled both challenges better than writer, storyteller, lecturer, friend Alex Haley. He was a magnificently common uncommon man. Alex Haley's death must have come as a shock to everyone who knew him, even the doctor-friend who had warned of some of his health problems. He was so totally alive, so fully aware of the world around him, that it was difficult to believe he could not continue sixteen-hour days for an endless lifetime. His conversations were of a future crowded with ideas and plans and projects—books, television programs, philanthropies. We were to have met three days after he died to discuss one of those projects. On one occasion he returned from a visit as the house guest (is palace-guest correct?) of the King of Morocco talking about a novel he would write about an Appalachian boy http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Alex Haley: 1921-1992

Dykeman, Wilma.
Appalachian Review , Volume 20 (2) – Jan 8, 2014
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Wilma Dykeman Appalachian Heritage, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 1992, pp. 6-8 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1992.0050 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438367/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:38 GMT from JHU Libraries Alex Haley: 1921-1992 Wilma Dykeman To be a citizen of the world is also to be a citizen of Appalachia. No one fulfilled both challenges better than writer, storyteller, lecturer, friend Alex Haley. He was a magnificently common uncommon man. Alex Haley's death must have come as a shock to everyone who knew him, even the doctor-friend who had warned of some of his health problems. He was so totally alive, so fully aware of the world around him, that it was difficult to believe he could not continue sixteen-hour days for an endless lifetime. His conversations were of a future crowded with ideas and plans and projects—books, television programs, philanthropies. We were to have met three days after he died to discuss one of those projects. On one occasion he returned from a visit as the house guest (is palace-guest correct?) of the King of Morocco talking about a novel he would write about an Appalachian boy

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