A Writer's Life: Stephen Harrigan Looks Back On His Fifty Year Career

Stephen Harrigan (born 1948) is an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is best known as the author of the bestselling The Gates of the Alamo, for other novels such as Remember Ben Clayton and A Friend of Mr. Lincoln, and for his magazine work in Texas Monthly. His articles and essays have appeared there and in a wide variety of other magazines, including Outside, Esquire, The New York Times Book Review, National Geographic, American History, The Wall Street Journal, and Slate. He was inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame and has won lifetime achievement awards from the Texas Book Festival and the Texas Institute of Letters. Learn more about him here.

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