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Owen Egerton
Owen Egerton (born December 28th 1972) is an American novelist, screenwriter, director, and comedian. He is best known for his films Mercy Black and Blood Fest, his live comedy work with Master Pancake Theater in Austin, Texas, and his novels The Book of Harold the Illegitimate Son of God, How Best to Avoid Dying, and the PEN Southwest Book Award winning Hollow, which was named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2017.

Egerton has been voted Austin’s Best Author seven times by readers of The Austin Chronicle. He’s a host for Texas Monthly and NPR podcasts and is the long-running emcee for the Fantastic Debates at Fantastic Fest.

Produced Feature Screenplays

 * Mercy Black (2019) Universal, Blumhouse - Writer/Director
 * Blood Fest (2018) Rooster Teeth, Warner Media - Writer/Director/Actor
 * The Axe Murders of Villisca (2016) IFC Midnight - Writer
 * Follow (2015) Gravitas - Writer/Director
 * Free Birds (2013) Real FX, Relativity Media – Writer

Fiction Books

 * Hollow (Soft Skull – Counterpoint) 2017 – NPR Best Books of 2017. PEN Southwest Book Award
 * How Best to Avoid Dying: Stories (Soft Skull Press) 2013 (Dalton Publishing) 2007
 * Everyone Says That at the End of the World (Soft Skull Press) 2013
 * The Book of Harold, The Illegitimate Son of God (Soft Skull Press) 2012 (Dalton Publishing) 2010
 * Marshall Hollenzer is Driving (iUniverse) 2000.

Non-fiction Books

 * This Word Now (co-written with Jodi Egerton) (Write Good) 2016
 * DadLabs: Pregnancy and Year One (Quirk Publishing) 2009