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a long novel (1976) by the US writer Alex Haley, for which he received a special Pulitzer Prize. The story, based on Haley's research into his own family's history, is about an African-American family of slaves. A television version (1977) ran for eight nights on ABC and had an audience of about 100 million, the largest ever. It received nine Emmy awards.根：美国作家亚历克斯·海利（Alex Haley）的一部长篇小说（1976年），为此他获得了普利策特别奖。这个故事基于海莉对自己家庭历史的研究，是关于一个非洲裔奴隶家庭的。一部电视版（1977年）在美国广播公司（ABC）上播放了八个晚上，观众人数约为1亿，是有史以来最大的。它获得了九项艾美奖。