Tucson Festival of Books

Kirk Ellis (he/him)



Sheila Ellis

Kirk Ellis is the multiple Emmy-winning screenwriter of HBO’s John Adams, the Apple TV+ limited series Franklin, and other works of historical drama, including Anne Frank: The Whole Story and Into the West. He is the author, most recently, of They Kill People and Ride Lonesome, one of the inaugural volumes in UNM Press’s Reel West series. 

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Awards: Emmy Award/Writers Guild of America Award/Humanitas Prize


Books:
They Kill People
Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution, and America's Obsession with Guns and Outlaws
History / Biography
University of New Mexico Press
February 2026
ISBN 9780826369376
312 pages

Ride Lonesome
History / Biography
University of New Mexico Press
January 2023
ISBN 9780826364616
184 pages