Filling in the Gaps

tephen Harrigan has written about Texas for most of his life. He was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Abilene and Corpus Christi before moving to Austin, where he graduated from the University of Texas in 1970. He stuck around and started writing for after it launched in 1973. Over his career, he’s written countless long-form articles about his home state, along with six novels (including the bestselling and more recently, ), multiple screenplays, and five nonfiction books. It’s not surprising, then, that University of Texas Press tapped Harrigan to write an updated history of Texas. Six years later, in October, Harrigan released , a monumental work at 944 pages. The printer’s binding machine broke twice while running off the