She vowed to find a better world for her children.
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He worked extensively with Alex Haley on the screenplay Queen, and after Alex Haley died, he completed the unfinished book.
He has written several other miniseries, including Merlin, and his off-Broadway play The Sum of Us was made into a movie.
David Stevens is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter who coauthored Breaker Morant and directed the Emmy Award-winning miniseries A Town Like Alice.
He died in February 1992.
With Malcolm X, he coauthored the Autobiography of Malcom X .
About the Author: Alex Haley is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Roots .
Throughout all the seasons of their lives, it is Mama Flora who prevails, whose quiet determination and love bring them back, as she leads her own quest for justice in tumultuous times.
Inspired by her love for the radical poet Ben, Ruthana seeks her soul in Africa even as Willie\'s son and daughter embrace Black Power and drugs in their embattled coming-of-age.
But it will not be Willie, her son, who fulfills her ambitions, but Ruthana, the niece she raises as her own.
Mama Flora, born to poor sharecroppers in Tennessee, is forced to raise her children alone after the murder of her husband.
She is the heart and soul of her Family who, through faith and courage, drives herself, her children, and her grandchildren onward, determined to propel them to a better place.
A sweeping epic of contemporary history by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alex Haley, this magnificent novel weaves an unforgettable story of one family, three generations, and their search for the American dream....
Even if she had to make it herself.
She vowed to find a better world for her children
