Leon Hale

LEON HALE was an award-winning Houston columnist 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.

He 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 and his wife, the writer Babette Fraser Hale, divided their time between Houston and Washington County, Texas. Leon Hale died on March 27, 2021.

Most of his twelve books are available from the Texas Book Consortium. https://www.tamupress.com/consortium/winedale-publishing/.

His newest book is SEE YOU ON DOWN THE ROAD: A Retirement Journal, published on March 7, 2021 by Winedale Publishing. https://www.winedalebooks.com