Deborah Johnson has won the 2015 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction for her book, The Secret of Magic. Johnson has made history as the first woman and African-American author to win this award.
Here’s more from the press release: “The prize, authorized by Ms. Lee and co-sponsored by The University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal, is given annually to a book-length work of fiction that best illuminates the role of lawyers in society and their power to effect change…The Secret of Magic was chosen by a distinguished panel of judges: Wayne Flynt, author and Alabama historian; Mary McDonagh Murphy, independent film and television writer and producer; and Michele Norris, NPR host and special correspondent.”
Johnson will accept this award at a ceremony which will be held at the Library of Congress’s Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C. This event has been scheduled to take place on September 3.