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Harper Lee is honoured at
the Library Foundation of Los Angeles 2005 Awards Dinner
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee is among
the inaugural inductees for the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame.
The 89-year-old Lee and
11 other writers are being honored as the hall's first class Monday night in
Tuscaloosa.
The honor comes weeks
before the release of Lee's second book, "Go Set a Watchman." It was
finished before the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Mockingbird" but takes
place 20 years later. "Watchman" again features Atticus Finch, Scout,
and others from her first beloved novel about racial injustice in the Deep
South. Lee's agreement to release the book stunned the literary world.
It was unclear whether
Lee would attend Monday.
The inductees who are
still living are Lee, author Rick Bragg, poets Sonia Sanchez and Andrew Glaze,
and novelist Sena Jeter Naslund.
Posthumous inductees
include Helen Keller and William March.
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