Lawrence Wright

Where I’m Coming From

Compiled by Forrest Preece

Lawrence Wright - Author

Fast 12 Questions with Lawrence Wright, author of forthcoming narrative “Redemption,” about the women on Texas death row. Publishing date: Oct. 20.

1. What’s something about you that not many people know?

As a young man I spent two years teaching in Cairo, Egypt, and on the side worked for an Egyptologist.

2. What was your first job? 

Washing dishes and scooping ice cream at Goff’s in Dallas.

3. If you could have dinner with three people – dead or alive, at any time in history—who would they be?

Benjamin Franklin, AJ Liebling, and Nora Ephron.

4. If you had to pick three musicians for a playlist, who would they be?

Bill Evans, Gene Harris, and Floyd Domino

5. Favorite book and TV show?

“The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” and “The Sopranos"

6. Most powerful movie you have seen?

Schindler’s List.

7. Favorite place in Austin?

Hike and bike trail

8. Favorite restaurant and watering hole

68 degrees

9. What did you want to be when you were growing up?

Forest ranger

10. Which living person do you most admire?

Marcia Ball

11. What makes you happy?

Grandchildren

12. Best advice you ever received?

From a witch named Starhawk: “We witches have a saying: where there’s fear, there’s power."