The two crossword solutions for the term 'ROOTS AUTHOR' are Haley (5 letters) and AlexHaley (9 letters). The author of the novel 'ROOTS: The Saga of an American Family' is Alex Haley, who was born in 1921 in Ithaca, New York. He was a writer and a journalist, and he served in the United States Coast Guard for twenty years. His novel 'ROOTS' was published in 1976 and was based on his family's history, tracing their ROOTS back to Africa. The novel was adapted into a television miniseries in 1977, which won nine Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. Haley was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1977 for his novel.