Alex Haley
I had during my last year of vagabonding
in 1975 read in Reader's Digest that a black American had found his roots
in Africa. It was before I heard about "Roots" and I found it so
sensational that when a year later
my own book "American Pictures" came out I told my
publisher to secure the Danish rights
also to Alex Haley's Roots.
Thus I was very proud to have Alex Haley come to our multi-ethnic
work collective so I could present my slideshow for him. Here
he is seen in my small theater, but I have to confess that of my 5
hour show was too much for him. He fell
asleep shortly after the beginning about the slaves being sailed
across the ocean to America since he had jetlag from flying the
opposite way the same morning :-)
Here is is seen with my parents and members of our collective and
for the dinner afterwards. He was later a bit annoyed since
everybody in Denmark mostly asked him about his previous extremely
popular book about Malcom X rather than about his own Roots.
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