Author, Alabama native, to be honored at White House.

The White House on Monday announced the recipients of the 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest US civilian honor, including a Cuban dissident, Liberia's president, and a beloved US author, Harper Lee. The ceremony will take place on November 5th at the White House. I wonder if Ms. Lee will show up. She has recently forgone her reclusive ways of the past to actually appear in public and accept awards from the University of Alabama. Lee is of course,the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of "To Kill A Mockingbird." See my thoughts about Ms. Lee and her work from this earlier post.

The other five winners include the 1992 Nobel economics prize winner Gary Becker; Human Genome Project leader Francis Collins; US civil rights leader Benjamin Hooks; former House Foreign Affairs committee chairman Henry Hyde; and groundbreaking television executive of C-SPAN, Brian Lamb.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom, established in 1963, is awarded for an honoree's "especially meritorious contribution" to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, or for their accomplishments in the areas of culture or "other significant public or private endeavors."