MAKING AND UNMAKING: MEMOIR

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
| Location of Session: Launch SA Center
Adult Sessions

Start of Signing: 3:00 pm
| Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

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About the Event

Award-winning journalist and memoirist Peter Godwin (Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars) comes to terms with everything his family was and wasn’t: the secrets they kept from one another, the stoicism that sometimes threatened to destroy them, and the beauty of the wildly different places they called home.

About the Author

Photo Credit: Michael Yule

Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He is the author of six award-winning books including Mukiwa and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun. His book The Fear was selected by The New Yorker as a best book of the year. He has taught writing at Wesleyan University and Columbia University, and served as President of the PEN American Center. He has received an Orwell Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in New York City. His latest book is Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars.

Moderator

Dan Goodgame

Dan Goodgame was Texas Monthly’s editor in chief from 2019 – 2024. A Pulitzer Prize finalist and best-selling author, Goodgame joined TM in early 2019, after serving as a vice president at Rackspace, a cloud computing company based in San Antonio. Before that, Goodgame was editor in chief of Fortune Small Business magazine, whose subscribers were more than a million owners of entrepreneurial companies. He earlier worked for Time magazine as White House correspondent, Washington bureau chief, and assistant managing editor. He is coauthor of the book Marching in Place, about the first president Bush. Goodgame previously worked for the Miami Herald, including as a correspondent in the Middle East, covering the Israel-Lebanon and Iran-Iraq wars. A native of Pascagoula, Mississippi, Goodgame earned a bachelor’s degree at Ole Miss and a master’s in international relations at Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.