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Bryan Mealer

Biography

Bryan Mealer

Bryan Mealer is the author of MUCK CITY and the New York Times bestseller THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND --- written with William Kamkwamba --- which has been translated into more than a dozen languages and is the basis of a major motion picture. He’s also the author of ALL THINGS MUST FIGHT TO LIVE, which chronicled his time covering the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the Associated Press and Harper’s. His other work has appeared in Texas Monthly, Esquire, the Guardian and the New York Times. Mealer and his family live in Austin.

Bryan Mealer

Books by Bryan Mealer

by Bryan Mealer - History, Memoir, Nonfiction

In 1892, Bryan Mealer’s great-grandfather leaves the Georgia mountains and heads west into Texas, looking for wealth and adventure in the raw and open country. But his luck soon runs out. Beset by drought, the family loses their farm just as the dead pastures around them give way to one of the biggest oil booms in American history. They eventually settle in the small town of Big Spring, where fast fortunes are being made from its own reserves of oil. For the next two generations, the Mealers live on the margins of poverty. After embracing Pentecostalism during the Great Depression, they rely heavily on their faith to steel them against hardship and despair. But for young Bobby Mealer, the author’s father, religion is only an agent for rebellion.