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Sarah’s original screenplay, Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen, is currently in development with Pantheon of Women. She has written screenplays for Paramount, CBS, Warner Bros, National Geographic, ABC, TNT, Hemdale Studio, and several independent producers. In 2013 she was selected to be The University of Texas’ Libraries Distinguished Author speaker, and was featured on NPR’s The Moth Radio Hour. In 2012 Sarah was voted Best Austin Author for the fourth time by the readers of the Austin Chronicle was inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame and received the Illumine Award for Excellence in Fiction from the Austin Library Foundation.

Sarah has been selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great Writers series a Dobie-Paisano Fellowship New York Public Library’s 25 Books to Remember list Elle Magazine Reader’s Prize People Magazine’s Page Turners Library Journal’s Best Novels and a National Magazine Silver Award for her columns in Texas Monthly. The soft cover is being released by Penguin on April 28, 2015.

The ninth hard cover, Above the East China Sea, was published by Alfred A. Sarah will be reading from her most recent novel, “Above the East China Sea.”Īdmission is free. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University and Grand Stafford Theater invite you to an evening with Sarah Bird, American novelist, screenwriter, essayist and photographer.

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Filled with hope yet aware of the reality of life without status, money, and friends, the novel gives voice to the stories of the displaced and unknown, offering a resonant new definition of what it means to be an American. Her new book The Book of Unknown Americans tells the tragic story of the love between a Panamanian boy and a Mexican girl living in a Delaware apartment complex. Named one of “Fiction’s New Luminaries” by the Virginia Quarterly Review, Cristina Henríquez is the author of the novel The World in Half and the short story collection Come Together, Fall Apart, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Air Force brat sees an alarming vision of a dying woman and child one night on a quiet beach, is she hallucinating or witnessing something far graver? In her new book Above the East China Sea, the devastating Battle of Okinawa looms large in the lives of two young women-one who lived through the carnage, another who is absorbing its spiritual reverberations. Sarah Bird’s fiction, including The Gap Year, The Yokota Officers Club, and The Flamenco Academy, contains “such energy and snap, her novels seem to be in motion” ( The Dallas Morning News).