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in booksWhich book featured the character of Kunta Kinte?
Kunta Kinte is a character in the 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley. Haley based Kunta Kinte on one of his ancestors: a Gambian man born in 1750, enslaved and taken to America, who died in 1822. “Roots” earned Haley a Pulitzer Prize and was turned into a TV…
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in booksIn the Pulitzer-winning novel 'The Night Watchman,' who is the titular character?
The Pulitzer-winning historical novel “The Night Watchman” follows a native American tribal chairman who is on a mission to defeat a congressional bill to terminate the tribe. Author Louise Erdrich said its inspiration was her maternal grandfather’s life._x000D_