Harper Lee is one of 12 Alabama writers who will be inducted into the first Alabama Writers Hall of Fame in June 2015.
The Alabama Center for the Book and the Alabama Writers’ Forum have partnered and created the state’s first comprehensive Alabama Writers Hall of Fame.
In addition to Lee, the members of the class are: Johnson Jones Hooper (1815-1862), Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909), Helen Keller (1880-1968), Zora Neal Hurston (1891-1960), William March (1894-1954), Albert Murray (1916-2013) and Helen Norris Bell (1916-2013). Other authors of the 20th century who will be inducted are: Rick Bragg, Andrew Glaze, Sonia Sanchez and Sena Jeter Naslund.
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