Windham to Be Inducted into Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame

Kathryn Tucker Windham will be inducted into the Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame (AWHOF) in March 2015. 

A native of Thomasville, graduate of Huntingdon College and lifelong resident of Alabama, Windham is well-known as a master storyteller, author of 29 books, playwright, photographer and popular public television and radio personality.

Windham began her writing career at the age of 12 when she became movie editor for her cousin Earl Tucker’s weekly newspaper, The Thomasville Times. After graduating from Huntingdon College, she went to work as a reporter for The Alabama Journal.

In 1942 she moved to Birmingham and in 1944 joined The Birmingham News. She married A.B. Windham in 1946 and they moved to Selma where their three children were born. She joined the staff of The Selma Times-Journal in 1956 and won several Associated Press awards for writing and photography.

Windham died at age 93 on June 12, 2011, shortly before the publication of the last of her 29 books — “She: The Old Woman Who Took Over My Life.”