This American author of 'Roots' attended Alcorn State University, a historically Black college in Mississippi, before transferring to Elizabeth City State College in North Carolina, and later owned a farm in Appalachia near the Museum of Appalachia. He died in 1992. Which writer is he?

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Alex Haley. Alex Haley, author of Roots, owned a farm in Appalachia near the Museum of Appalachia and attended Alcorn State University, a historically Black college in Mississippi. He died in 1992.