MONROEVILLE, Ala. (WSFA) – Alabama native and best-selling novelist Ace Atkins might be offered the 2026 Harper Lee Award, The Monroeville Literary Pageant introduced Monday.
The award acknowledges the lifetime achievements of an creator both born in Alabama or one with a robust connection to the state, and is among the prime southern literature awards.
Ace Atkins is an award-winning, New York Occasions bestselling creator who has written greater than 30 novels and quite a few quick tales.
“I’m past honored and thrilled to be receiving this award. Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird have at all times represented abnormal Southerners standing up and doing the best factor to battle for social justice,” Atkins stated “From my books Depraved Metropolis, impressed by the true story of Phenix Metropolis, Alabama, to my tales about Quinn Colson and fictional Tibbehah County, Mississippi; these are concepts and themes I at all times wished to embrace in my work.”
The Monroeville Literary Pageant will current the award to Atkins on Friday, February 27, 2026 on the Previous Courthouse Museum in Monroeville.
Different completed authors will even be acknowledged at reception/dinner that night.
Tickets to the occasion go on sale this November.
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