Alex Haley was a Black American author known for his 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which chronicles the experiences of multiple generations of Black Americans, beginning with Kunta Kinte, who is captured and enslaved in the eighteenth century. Roots was adapted into a television miniseries that aired in 1977, drawing an audience of approximately 130 million viewers. Haley received a Pulitzer Prize Special Award for Roots in 1977. In 1965, he wrote The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which Time magazine ranked in 1998 as one of the ten most influential books of the twentieth century. During the 1980s, Haley worked with the Walt Disney Company on developing the Equatorial Africa pavilion at Epcot.