Stephen Harrigan is the author of ten books, including the NYT best seller 'The Gates of the Alamo'. The Library Foundation is excited to feature A Friend of Mr. Lincoln by Stephen Harrigan for this year’s Mayor’s Book Club.

Stephen Harrigan is the author of ten books, including the NYT best seller 'The Gates of the Alamo'  .

To his friends he is also a beloved figure, by turns charmingly awkward and mesmerizingly self-possessed-a man of whom they, too, expect big things. 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.

Stephen Harrigan (born 1948) is an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is best known as the author of the bestselling The Gates of the Alamo, for other novels such as Remember Ben Clayton and A Friend of Mr. Lincoln, and for his magazine work in Texas Monthly.

Stephen Harrigan is an American writer, known primarily for his 2000 historical novel The Gates of the Alamo. 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.

Lincoln''s fictional friend here is Cage Weatherby, a struggling poet who first meets Lincoln on a bloody battleground during the Black Hawk War of 1832.

Author Stephen Harrigan. Books by Stephen Harrigan: A Friend of Mr. Lincoln. 10 5.

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Looking for books by Stephen Harrigan? . His nonfiction books include Water and Light: A Diver’s Journey to a Coral Reef and the essay collections A Natural State and Comanche Midnight.

Looking for books by Stephen Harrigan? See all books authored by Stephen Harrigan, including The Gates of the Alamo, and A Friend of Mr. Lincoln, and more on ThriftBooks. He is a longtime writer for Texas Monthly, and his articles have appeared in many other magazines. He lives in Austin, Texas. Books By Stephen Harrigan.

One fee. Stacks of books. He was born in Oklahoma City in 1948, grew up in Texas (in Abilene and Corpus Christi) and currently lives in Austin.