WHAT’S HAPPENING?
TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR FEBRUARY 25TH
Hill Country AUTHOR SERIES
Featuring Steve Harrigan
Tickets
for the next Hill Country Author Series are now on sale
at Second-Hand Prose, our used book store on the second
floor of the Georgetown library. Tickets are $13 in
advance, and will be $15 at the door.
Steve Harrigan is the featured author.
The event begins at 2 PM; desserts and coffee
will be served, and are included in the ticket price.
Doors will open at 1:30 PM.
He is best
known for
Gates of the Alamo,
which became a New York Times bestseller and notable
book, and which 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. In
April 2006
Challenger Park was published, a novel about a woman astronaut torn between her
responsibilities as a mother and her dreams of flying in
space. Writing in the New York Times Book Review, Thomas
Mallon called Challenger Park “a fine, absorbing
achievement, probably the best science-factual novel
about the space-faring worlds of Houston and Cape
Canaveral in the nearly half-century since the first
astronauts were chosen.
Among the many
movies Harrigan has written for television are HBO’s
award-winning
The Last of His Tribe, starring Jon Voight and Graham Greene, and
King of Texas, a western retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear for TNT, which starred
Patrick Stewart, Marcia Gay Harden, and Roy Scheider.
His most recent television production was
The Colt, an adaptation of a short story by the Nobel-prize winning author
Mikhail Sholokhov, which aired on The Hallmark Channel.
For his screenplay of The Colt, Harrigan was nominated
for a Writers Guild Award and the Humanitas Prize.
Current projects in development include a feature
adaptation of Conn Iggulden’s “Emperor” novels, which he
is co-writing with William Broyles, Jr.
A 1971 graduate
of the University of Texas, Harrigan lives in Austin,
where he is on the faculty of UT’s James A. Michener
Center for Writers. He is also a board 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.
On November 12, 2009 Paulette Jiles Spoke AT
THE HILL COUNTRY AUTHORS SERIES
 Ms.
Jiles entertained more than eighty people who attended
her presentation at the Hill Country Authors event on
November 12th in the Community Rooms at the Georgetown
library. We
felt quite privileged to hear her, after she said that
she didn’t do book tours or literary appearances except
at libraries and book clubs.
The audience enjoyed hearing about the processes
she uses when researching and writing her books, as well
as the tales she told about life on the ranchito south
of San Antonio, where she lives with her husband and
animals.
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An
attentive crowd
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Delicious desserts from the Red Poppy Café
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President Judy Apel
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Ms.
Jiles answers questions
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Fundraising Chair, Martha Lawlor, presents book
bag
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Autographing session
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