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Patti Callahan Henry Named 2020 Harper Lee Award Recipient By Emily Williams Patti Callahan Henry of Mountain Brook recently was named winner of the 2020 Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer. It is annually awarded by the Monroeville Literary Festival and Alabama Writers’ Forum, named for Harper Lee, author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” who was raised in Monroeville and returned there to spend her later years. “Some things you kind of see coming out of the corner of your eye, things that you are hoping for and you look for. You’re really excited when you get them, but you were hoping,” Henry said. “This was so out of the blue that I was completely thrilled.” The award will be presented March 6 during the Monroeville Literary Festival. Henry is the author of 15 New York Times bestsellers. She also has been on the USA Today, Publishers Weekly and Globe and Mail bestseller lists and has won and been nominated for multiple awards. Among her most famous novels was the critically acclaimed historical novel, “Becoming Mrs. Lewis – The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis,” See HENRY, page 15
Leadership Vestavia Hills Celebrates Dr. Audie Woolley’s Work With Deaf Children
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Henry is the Many of those babies end up at the Children’s author of 15 Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program, started by New York Times ccording to the National Institute on Woolley in 1995. Since then, the program has combestsellers. Deafness and Other Communication pleted more than 700 implant procedures. Disorders, roughly one in 1,000 children In addition, Woolley serves as the co-founder and are born deaf. director of the Woolley Institute for Speech“In Alabama, that’s going to be about Language Education, a preschool that provides eduAngus Angus Beef therapy Huge Selection of Wineof&Wine Beer& Beer Fresh Vegetables Fresh Gulf Fresh, Fresh, Never-Frozen Fresh Certified Beef programs to children with hearHuge Selection Fresh Vegetables FreshSeafood Gulf Seafood Never-Frozen Fresh 30 to 40Chicken kids,Chicken because there areFruit aboutFruit 30,000 to Certified cational and 40,000 live births a year,” said Dr. Audie Woolley, ing disabilities. FOLKS IN BIRMINGHAM HAVE BEENBEEN "GOIN' TO THE PIG" SINCE 1977. THANK YOU YOU FOR FOR MAKING US AUS BIRMINGHAM TRADITION! FOLKS IN BIRMINGHAM "GOIN' TO THE PIG" SINCE 1977. THANK MAKING A BIRMINGHAM TRADITION! chief of pediatric otolaryngology at Children’s ofHAVE A Vestavia Hills resident, Woolley will be honSee WOOLEY, page 9 Alabama. Photo courtesy Patti Callahan Henry
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