By Alabama Public Radio
Monroeville, AL – Author Wayne Greenhaw of Montgomery has won the 2006 Harper Lee Award for a Distinguished Alabama Writer. Greenhaw studied writing at the University of Alabama, and published 16 books of fiction and nonfiction, including the recently released "The Thunder of Angels," about the Montgomery bus boycott, which he co-wrote with Donnie Williams. He's also written hundreds of articles for national publications. The Alabama Writers' Forum selected him as this year's winner of the Harper Lee Award. The award is named for Alabama author Harper Lee whose novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird," won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960, and has sold more than 30 million copies. Greenhaw will be honored at the annual Alabama Writers' Symposium in Monroeville in May.