Leon Hale is an author and award winning columnist for the Houston Chronicle

Houston Chronicle

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. He moved to The Chronicle after writing a column in the Houston Post

Houston Post

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for 32 years.

Hale is a member of The Texas Institute of Letters, a literary group in Austin

Austin, Texas

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, which recognized the writer with the Lon Tinkle Award for Excellence Sustained Throughout a Career. He has also won awards for fiction and non-fiction from the Headliners Foundation, United Press International

United Press International

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, and the Associated Press

Associated Press

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Books

Leon Hale is also the author of the following books:

• Turn South at the Second Bridge (1965)
• Bonney's Place (1972)
• Addison (1978)
• A Smile from Katie Hattan (1982)
• Easy Going (1983)
• One Man's Christmas (1984)
• Paper Hero (1986)
• Texas Chronicles (1989)
• Home Spun (1997)
• Supper Time (1999)
• Old Friends: A Collection (2004)