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Stephen Harrigan was born in Oklahoma City in 1948 and has lived in Texas since the age of five, growing up in Abilene and Corpus Christi.
For many years he was a staff writer and senior editor at Texas Monthly, and his articles and essays have appeared in a wide range of other publications as well, including The Atlantic, Outside, The New York Times Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, Audubon, Travel Holiday, Life, American History, National Geographic and Slate. Many of his magazine pieces have been collected in the essay collections, A Natural State (1988) and Comanche Midnight (1995). Another non-fiction book, Water and Light: A Diver’s Journey to a Coral Reef, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1992.
Harrigan is the author of five novels: Aransas (1980), Jacob’s Well (1984), The Gates of the Alamo (2000), Challenger Park (2006) and Remember Ben Clayton (2011).
Among the many movies Harrigan has written for television are HBO’s award-winning The Last of His Tribe, and King of Texas, a western retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear for TNT. His most recent television production was The Colt. Young Caesar, a feature production he wrote with William Broyles, Jr., is currently in development.
A 1971 graduate of the University of Texas, Harrigan lives in Austin, where he is a faculty fellow at UT’s James A. Michener Center for Writers. He is also a founding member of the Texas Book Festival, and of Capital Area Statues, Inc., a non-profit organization that commissions and raises money for monumental works of sculpture celebrating the history and culture of Texas. He and his wife, Sue Ellen, have three daughters, Marjorie, Dorothy and Charlotte, and two grandchildren, Mason and Travis.
