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An award winning novelist, screenwriter and essayist, Stephen Harrigan (b. 1948) has lived most of his adult life in Austin, Texas. A frequent contributor to Texas Monthly, he is most famous for his historical novel The Gates of the Alamo and for the screenplay Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (parts 1 and 2). Although the glory days of the “made-for-TV movies” may have passed, Harrigan has numerous screenplays to his credit, including King of Texas (2002), starring Patrick Stewart; The Widow on the Hill (2005), starring Natasha Henstridge and James Brolin; and the TV miniseries Cleopatra (1999), starring Leonor Varela and Timothy Dalton.
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