1. United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back to Africa (1921-1992); [syn: Haley, Alex Haley]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Alex Haley
n 1: United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a
fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back to
Africa (1921-1992) [syn: Haley, Alex Haley]