![]() ![]() ![]() Twenty-five years later, the book had sold more than eight million copies in twenty-eight countries and had been translated into thirty-three languages. In its first year, Roots would sell more than one million copies, leading to Haley’s receipt of a special Pulitzer Prize. The book’s publisher, Doubleday, planned what was, for an African American author, an unprecedented initial print run of 200,000 copies, but that printing quickly sold out. ![]() bicentennial year of 1976 was a landmark event. The publication of Alex Haley’s Roots: The Saga of an American Family in the U.S. The importance of his landmark work survived, however, and its lasting significance has overshadowed the controversy. In later years, Haley faced other charges of falsification of his research. ![]() In 1978, writer Harold Courlander sued Haley for plagiarizing parts of his 1967 novel The African. Alex Haley’s quasi-autobiographical and semifictional book Roots, marketed as nonfiction by its publisher, earned him a Pulitzer Prize and raised his status as a writer and model of the value of genealogical research. ![]()
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