The crossword solutions for the term ROOTS WRITER ALEX are Haley, which is a 5 letter word. Haley is a reference to Alex Haley, an American writer and the author of the 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States. Haley won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1977 for his work on the novel.