Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alex Haley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Roots," is pictured at the old Knoxville News Sentinel offices in downtown Knoxville ...

In 1985, a venerated American author described his affinity for a certain underdog city with big charm. He noted that city's "steadily rising image as a pleasant, entertaining, positive city either to ...