Description
Natural wonders were Leon Hale's lifetime subject matter. He looked for them wherever he went, and found them surprisingly often.
In the lives of plain people and eccentrics, in the brilliant smile of a tiny 100-year-old black lady, or the hi-jinks of his cousin C.T., in what happened on a dirt farm in 1930 or why he found value in chiseling brick, he revealed truths and wonders we might not have noticed on our own.
When published in 1982, A Smile from Katie Hattan was Leon Hale's first column collection after nearly thirty years of writing for The Houston Post. It was widely celebrated for presenting the delightful daily work of this writer, at last, to a wider audience. What is remarkable, now, forty years later, is how fresh and interesting the 155 columns remain, as we roam with the author through a Texas that remains as vivid and enjoyable as the day he wrote about it.
Author: Leon Hale
Publisher: Winedale Publishing
Published: 05/02/2023
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9780975272725
ISBN10: 0975272721
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | General
- Literary Collections | General
About the Author
LEON HALE was the author of twelve books, including two novels and three memoirs. He received the Lon Tinkle Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, in addition to numerous other accolades. For more than sixty years he wrote a column about the people and places of Texas for, first, The Houston Post, and later, the Houston Chronicle. He retired in 2014 and died in 2021, two months short of his 100th birthday.