Leon Hale

Leon Hale is an author and award winning columnist for the Houston Chronicle. He moved to The Chronicle after writing a column in the Houston Post for 32 years.
Hale is a member of The Texas Institute of Letters, a literary group in Austin, 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, and the Associated Press.
He has recently announced his retirement after 65 years of writing. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/columnists/hale/?cmpid=btfpm Despite this announcement, he continues to write short blogs weekly for the Chronicle as of the end of 2014.

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)

• Borders, Gary (26 November 2000). "Books to curl up with on an autumn night". Record-Journal. p. E3. Retrieved 27 February 2011. 
• Cohen, George (16 November 1986). "Author's story compelling". The Beaver County Times. p. 4. Retrieved 27 February 2011. 
• Greene, Beverly (16 March 1979). "Your library". Middlesboro Daily News. p. 4. Retrieved 27 February 2011.