Stevens, David

Alex Haley is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Roots. With Malcolm X, he coauthored the Autobiography of Malcom X. He died in February 1992.
David Stevens is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter who coauthored "Breaker Morant" and directed the Emmy Award-winning miniseries "A Town Like Alice." He has written several other miniseries, including "Merlin," and his off-Broadway play "The Sum of Us" was made into a movie. He worked extensively with Alex Haley on the screenplay "Queen," and after Alex Haley died, he completed the unfinished book.