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Stephen Harrigan Profile
Name: Stephen Harrigan
Title: Journalist and Author
Professional Resume: Mr. Harrigan is a former staff writer and senior editor at Texas Monthly, he still contributes frequently to the magazine, and his articles and essays have appeared in many other publications as well, including The Atlantic, Outside, The New York Times Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, Audubon, Travel Holiday, Life, and Slate.
Harrigan is the author of six books. His first novel, Aransas published by Alfred A. Knopf, was listed by The New York Times as a notable book of 1980. Jacob's Well, his second novel, was published by Simon and Schuster in 1984 and cited as one of the year's best books by both The Washington Post and The Dallas Morning News. His other books include the essay collections A Natural State and Comanche Midnight, and Water and Light: A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef , all of which are published in paperback by the University of Texas Press. In 2000, Knopf published his novel The Gates of the Alamo, which became a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. The Gates of the Alamo also received a number of awards, including the TCU Texas Book Award, the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, and the Spur Award for the best Novel of the West.
Among the many movies Harrigan has written for television are HBO’s award-winning The Last of His Tribe and a biographical film for CBS entitled Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder. His most recent television projects include a sequel to the Wilder film and King of Texas, a western retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear for TNT, starring Patrick Stewart, Marcia Gay Harden, and Roy Scheider. He is also currently work on a new novel.
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