Leon Hale


Leon Hale is an author and 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 announced his retirement in 2014 after 65 years of writing. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/columnists/hale/ Despite this announcement, weekly for the Chronicle until the end of 2015.

Books

Leon Hale is also the author of the following books: