Book Launch: Encounters with Unexpected Animals by Bret Anthony Johnston

A reception, book sales, and a signing will follow the program. This event is co-sponsored by the Texas Book Festival.

Bret Anthony Johnston is the internationally bestselling author of We Burn Daylight, Remember Me Like This, and Corpus Christi: Stories. He is the editor of Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer, and he wrote the documentary film, Waiting for Lightning. His work appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Short Stories, and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. His many honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and The Sunday Times Short Story Award, the world’s “richest and most prestigious prize for a single short story.” He is the Director of the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin, where he holds the Mari Sabusawa Michener Regents Chair in Writing.

Stephen Harrigan is the author of fourteen books of fiction and non-fiction, including the New York Times bestselling novel The Gates of the Alamo, Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas, and the recent Sorrowful Mysteries: The Shepherd Children of Fatima and the Fate of the Twentieth Century. His work as a journalist and essayist has appeared in many national magazines, and especially in Texas Monthly, for which he is a writer-at-large and longtime contributor. Many of his magazine pieces are collected in the books The Eye of the Mammoth and last year’s An Anchor in the Sea of Time. He is also an award-winning screenwriter who has written many movies for television. He lives and works in Austin.

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Host or Publisher Harry Ransom Center