2006 Harper Lee Award winner

Wayne Greenhaw has been awarded the Harper Lee Award, in recognition of his body of work.

Author Wayne Greenhaw has been named the 2006 recipient of the Harper Lee Award, given in recognition of a writer's significant body of work.

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Greenhaw has published 16 books of fiction and non-fiction, including The Thunder of Angels, a recently released history of the Montgomery bus boycott that he co-wrote with Donnie Williams. The award winner is selected by the executive committee of The Alabama Writers' Forum, a state-wide literary arts service organization, from nominations submitted from the field. The award is conferred at the annual Alabama Writers' Symposium, hosted by Alabama Southern Community College in Monroeville, May 4-6. Greenhaw is the ninth recipient of the award, named in honour of the woman who wrote the best-selling novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. Previous winners include Albert Murray, Madison Jones, Helen Norris, Sena Jeter Naslund, Mary Ward Brown, Rodney Jones, Sonia Sanchez and Andrew Hudgins.