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Turk Pipkin at TEDxSMU

October 24 by Jim

One Peace at a Time

Turk is an Austin-based writer and filmmaker, and the director of the new feature documentary, One Peace at a Time, which looks at the possibility of providing basic rights to every child. He has published ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestseller, The Tao of Willie, which Turk coauthored with American music legend, Willie Nelson. He is also the author of the novels Fast Greens and When Angels Sing. Turk also directed the feature documentary, Nobelity, and is the co-founder of the education and action nonprofit, The Nobelity Project. As an actor, Turk played that idiot narcoleptic guy in HBO’s The Sopranos. His feature films include Waiting for Guffman, The Alamo, Friday Night Lights and Rick Linklater’s Scanner Darkly.

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