Author | Alex Haley |
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Publisher | Ithaca ILR Press |
Publication date | 1997 |
Mama Flora's Family | |
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Directed by | Peter Werner |
Written by | Alex Haley David Stevens (novel) David Stevens Carol Schreder (teleplay) |
Produced by | Lisa Lindstrom Carol Schreder |
Starring | Cicely Tyson Blair Underwood Queen Latifah Mario Van Peebles Erika Alexander Tanya Wright David Ramsey Shemar Moore Novella Nelson Lou Myers |
Cinematography | Neil Roach |
Edited by | Tod Feuerman |
Music by | J. A. C. Redford |
Distributed by | CBS |
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Running time | 60 mins (2 episodes) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Mama Flora's Family is a 1997 historical fiction novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens. The story spans from the 1920s to the 1970s as it follows Flora, a daughter of poor black Mississippi sharecroppers, and her descendants. Haley died before completing the novel, with Stevens finishing the story line.[citation needed]
In 1998 the book was adapted into a made for TV miniseries of the same name.[1]