The New York Times bestselling author Stephen Harrigan will be appearing at The Alamo this Tuesday October 15 from 6p.m. to 7p.m. during a free community event presented by the San Antonio Book Festival and The Alamo. This event will feature a conversation between author, Stephen Harrigan and the San Antonio Book Festival’s Literary Director, Clay Smith. Harrigan is the  author of “The Gates of the Alamo,” a modern historical classic that retells the story of The Alamo. His latest book is “Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas.” Book sales and signing will begin at 4:30p.m. and the program begins at 6p.m. (San Antonio Book Festival, The Alamo, 2019)

Stephen Harrigan is the author of 11 books of fiction and nonfiction, including “The Gates of the Alamo,” which became a bestseller. He is a longtime writer for Texas Monthly and his articles and essays have appeared in a wide range of other publications. Harrigan is the recipient of the Texas Book Festival’s Texas Writers Award, the Lon Tinkle Award for lifetime achievement from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Texas Medal of Arts award from the Texas Cultural Trust and has been inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. He lives in Austin with his wife Sue Ellen.

“Big Wonderful Thing” invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea.

The mission of the San Antonio Book Festival is to unite readers and writers in a celebration of ideas, books, libraries and literary culture. A program of the San Antonio Public Library Foundation, SABF was first presented in April 2013. Founding Partners are the Texas Book Festival, the San Antonio Public Library and Southwest School of Art. Through active partnerships with school districts and community organizations focused on literacy, education and culture, the Festival connects with educators, parents and students, pre-K through college. SABF reaches out to those who are well read and those who need to read well.

The Alamo
300 Alamo Plaza
San Antonio, TX 78205

Downtown Tuesday FREE parking at nearby lots:
Houston/Nolan Lot (Houston @ Elm); Convention Center Garage (850 E. Commerce) and Houston St. Garage (240 E. Houston)