Screenwriter Margaret Nagle , who wrote The Good Lie , the recent Reese Witherspoon film about a woman who assists Sudanese refugees, will be honored by the Writers Guild of America, West with its 2015 Paul Selvin Award for her screenplay . Named after the late Paul Selvin , general counsel to the guild for 25 years, the award is given each year to the WGA member whose script best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties that are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere and to which Selvin devoted his professional life. Nagle will be recognized, along with other honorees, at the 2015 Writers Guild Awards L.A. ceremony on Feb. 14 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. A simultaneous ceremony will take place in New York.
