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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.

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.

	An attentive crowd		Delicious desserts from the Red Poppy Café
	President Judy Apel		Ms. Jiles answers questions
	Fundraising Chair, Martha Lawlor, presents book bag			Autographing session