![]() ![]() One of Haley's most famous interviews was a 1963 interview with Malcolm X for Playboy, which led to collaboration on the activist's autobiography. Martin Luther King, Jr., which was the longest he ever granted to any publication. Throughout the 1960s, Haley was responsible for some of the magazine's most notable interviews, including an interview with American Nazi Party leader, George Lincoln Rockwell and an interview with Dr. The interview, with jazz legend Miles Davis, appeared in the September 1962 issue. Haley conducted the first Playboy Interview for Playboy magazine. He later advanced to the rank of Chief Petty Officer and held this grade until his retirement from the Coast Guard in 1959.Īfter his retirement from the Coast Guard, Haley began his writing career and eventually became a senior editor for Reader's Digest. After World War II, Haley was able to petition the Coast Guard to allow him to transfer into the field of journalism, and by 1949 he had become a First Class Petty Officer in the rate of Journalist. It was during his service that he began to write. In 1939 Haley began a twenty year service with the coast guard. He grew up in the South, the son of Simon Alexander Haley, a teacher, and the former Bertha George Palmer, also a teacher. Alex Haley was born in Ithaca, New York in 1921. ![]()
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