Leon Hale is an award-winning Houston newspaperman and novelist, the author of eleven books. He retired in 2014 after a sixty-four-year career as a columnist with The Houston Post and, since 1985, the Houston Chronicle, for whom he continues to blog, blog.chron.com/leonhale
He has received the lifetime achievement award from the Texas Institute of Letters as well as awards for fiction and non-fiction from that organization, the Headliners Foundation, United Press International, the Associated Press and others.
A graduate of Texas Tech, Hale fought in World War II, as an aerial gunner on fifty combat missions. He is married and has two children, one stepson, three grandchildren and two step-grandchildren. He divides his time between Houston and Washington County, Texas.
