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Stephen Harrigan

Biography

Stephen Harrigan

Stephen Harrigan's previous novels include the New York Times bestselling THE GATES OF THE ALAMO, REMEMBER BEN CLAYTON (which, among other awards, won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians for best historical novel), and A FRIEND OF MR. LINCOLN. He has also written a number of nonfiction books, including BIG WONDERFUL THING: A History of Texas, and a career-spanning collection of essays, THE EYE OF THE MAMMOTH. He is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly, as well as a screenwriter who has written many movies for television. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Stephen Harrigan

Books by Stephen Harrigan

by Stephen Harrigan - Fiction, Historical Fiction

For Grady McClarty, an ever-watchful but bewildered five-year-old boy, World War II is only a troubling, ungraspable event that occurred before he was born. But he feels its effects all around him. He and his older brother Danny are fatherless, and their mother, Bethie, is still grieving for her fighter-pilot husband. Most of all, Grady senses it in his two uncles: young combat veterans determined to step into a fatherhood role for their nephews, even as they struggle with the psychological scars they carry from the war. When news breaks that a leopard has escaped from the Oklahoma City Zoo, the playthings and imagined fears of Grady’s childhood begin to give way to real-world terrors, most imminently the dangerous jungle cat itself.

by Stephen Harrigan - Fiction, Historical Fiction

It is Illinois in the 1830s and 1840s. Abraham Lincoln is a circuit-riding lawyer, a member of the state legislature, a man of almost ungovernable ambition. To his friends he is also a beloved figure, by turns charmingly awkward and mesmerizingly self-possessed. Among his friends and political colleagues are Joshua Speed, William Herndon, Stephen Douglas and many others who have come to the exploding frontier town of Springfield to find their futures. It is through another friend, fictional poet Cage Weatherby, that we will come to know Lincoln in his 20s and 30s, as a series of formative, surprising incidents unfolds.