US "novelist, journalist".
"His historical fiction, "Roots," 1976, depicted the struggles of American blacks and became the most-watched dramatic show in TV history."
"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.""
""In the bush, "trust" no one you don't know.'"
"In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it."
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.