Leon Hale

LEON HALE was the author of twelve books, including two novels and three memoirs. He received the Lon Tinkle Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, in addition to numerous other accolades. For more than sixty years he wrote a column about the people and places of Texas for, first, The Houston Post , and later, the Houston Chronicle . He retired in 2014 and died in 2021, two months short of his 100th birthday.

LEON HALE was the author of twelve books, including two novels and three memoirs. He received the Lon Tinkle Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, in addition to numerous other accolades. For more than sixty years he wrote a column about the people and places of Texas for, first, The Houston Post , and later, the Houston Chronicle . He retired in 2014 and died in 2021, two months short of his 100th birthday. See less