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About 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 after 65 years of writing.
- http://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/columnists/hale/ Despite this announcement, he continues to write short blogs weekly for the Chronicle as of the end of 2014.
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