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BEFORE BROWN
A SNIPER IN THE TOWER
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Why did he do it?
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1997 TX Book Fest
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Pictures
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Rave Reviews
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Dateline NBC
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Excerpt
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Tower Heroes
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NY Times Column
BAD BOY FROM ROSEBUD
WORSE THAN DEATH
Cajuns 
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Gary M. Lavergne, Featured Author
THE 1997 TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL
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Texas Governor George W. Bush welcomes Gary Lavergne and a host
of other featured authors to an early morning coffee in the Governor's
Mansion on Saturday, November 1, 1997. |
| The First Lady of Texas and the Honorary Chairman of the Texas Book
Festival, Laura Bush, hosted the featured authors and took part in many
of the festival's activities. Mrs. Bush is a former librarian and was instrumental
in the founding of the Texas Book Festival. |
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Jim Lehrer, award-winning journalist and host of the PBS newscast
Newshour with Jim Lehrer, was one of many featured authors attending
an early morning coffee at the Governor's Mansion. He is the author of
White Widow. |
| "The Kinkster," Kinky Friedman, the author of Roadkill,
and The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover, traded jokes with Gary, who
shared a Cajun quote not fit for this site. Kinky is also well know for
a song he wrote and performs entitled "The Ballad of Charles Whitman."
A master story teller himself, Kinky has said that "Gary Lavergne
is the best true-crime storyteller I've read since Truman Capote." |
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Larry L. King is the author of True Facts, Tall Tales, and Pure
Fiction. He is one of the most prolific of Texas writers and is the
author of the hugely successfull play The Best Little Whorehouse in
Texas. He has also written The Kingfish and The Night Hank
Williams Died. Larry has written of A Sniper in the Tower that
it was "... the first thing I have read to make sense of an insane
incident." |
| Gary Lavergne, author of A Sniper in the Tower, appeared
in a session entitled "True Crime" in an auditorium in the Capitol
Extension. Moderating the panel discussion was journalist Jack Keever (center).
Also appearing was William H. Honan, the author of Treasure Hunt: A
New York Times Reporter Tracks the Quedlinburg Hoard. |
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