Alex Haley
Posted By: njdittos      1/27/2013 7:43:08 AM
Michelle-Antoinette.com, by njdittos
Original Article

One of the great frauds of modern American letters. In 1976-78, a genial black writer traces his African slave ancestry like a detective story, becomes a revered celebrity, makes untold millions of dollars off the proceeds. Except it isn’t his ancestry, it’s fiction…and much of that stolen as well from other sources.