Harper Lee Award
The Harper Lee Award for Alabama's Distinguished Writer of the Year is an annual award recognizing a writer who was born in Alabama or has spent their formative years there; it was named after Harper Lee, whose To Kill A Mockingbird has sold over 30 million copies.[1][2]
The Harper Lee Award was established in 1998 and was awarded to Albert Murray.
Recipients[]
- 1998 - Albert Murray
- 1999 - Madison Jones
- 2000 - Helen Norris
- 2001 - Sena Jeter Naslund
- 2002 - Mary Ward Brown
- 2003 - Rodney Jones
- 2004 - Sonia Sanchez
- 2005 - Andrew Highway
- 2006 - Wayne Greenhaw[3]
- 2007 - William Cobb
- 2008 - Rebecca Gilman[4]
- 2009 - Rick Bragg
- 2010 - Carolyn Haines
- 2011 - Winston Groom
- 2012 - Fannie Flagg
- 2013 - Gay Talese
- 2014 - Mark Childress
- 2015 - Hank Lazer
- 2016 - E. O. Wilson[5]
- 2017 - Brad Watson
- 2018 - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- 2019 - Daniel Wallace
- 2020 - Patti Callahan Henry[6]
- 2021 - Angela Johnson[7]
References[]
- ^ a b "Alabama Writers' Forum : Programs : Harper Lee Award". www.writersforum.org. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
- ^ "Awards | Monroeville Literary Festival". MLF. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
- ^ "Montgomery Author Wins Harper Lee Award". www.apr.org. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
- ^ "Rebecca Gilman - Goodman Theatre". www.goodmantheatre.org. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
- ^ "E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation » Harper Lee Award". Retrieved 2021-06-25.
- ^ "Mountain Brook author wins 2020 Harper Lee Award". al. 2020-01-19. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
- ^ "Angela Johnson named 2021 Harper Lee Award winner". Alabama NewsCenter. 2021-02-06. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
Categories:
- American literary awards