Background
He was born in Oklahoma City in 1948, grew up in Texas (in Abilene and Corpus Christi) and currently lives in Austin.
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Stephen Harrigan
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Harrigan began his career as a journalist, as a staff writer and later senior editor at Texas Monthly magazine. Harrigan has written three other novels and three books of non-fiction. His most recent novel was Challenger Park, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2006.
Stephen Harrigan has also been a prolific screenwriter, principally in the field of made-for-television movies.
Altman was in pre-production on the movie at the time of his death in November 2006.
Achievements
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The Gates of the Alamo was a New York Times bestseller and the recipient of several awards, including a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. 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 films he has written are The Last of His Tribe (Home Box Office), Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Columbia Broadcasting System), King of Texas (TNT) and The Colt (The Hallmark Channel) More recently he worked with Robert Altman on a feature version of S. R. Bindler’s documentary, Hands on a Hard Body, about an endurance contest to win a pickup truck.
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