Haley penned Roots while in San Francisco
One wouldn't know that Ernest Gaines wrote The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman in San Francisco or about Amiri Baraka's seminal magazine article on the Beat Generation.
While in the Coast Guard
Haley prepared for a career as a free-lance journalist
Come to the Water: Teaching San Francisco Black History explores why so many great writers emerged from the City by the Bay and the social transformations they witnessed while here on Saturday, March 2 at 11 a.m. in the Visitor Center Theater of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
Haley said in Nov. 1972,"After its physical side, what is greatest about San Francisco is its society. I don't see another social scene more receptive to people doing their own thing" during a reception with George and Lucy Jewett and Alfred and Pat Wilsey.
