Writer and filmmaker Turk Pipkin is the director of three feature documentaries and the co-founder of the global education and conservation nonprofit, The Nobelity Project (www.nobelity.org).
As an actor, Turk is known for his recurring roles on HBO’s The Sopranos and The Leftovers, and for numerous feature films including Friday Night Lights, The Alamo and Waiting for Guffman.
Turk is the author of a dozen fiction and nonfiction books. His latest book, co-authored with his friend Willie Nelson, is the NY Times Bestseller Willie Nelson’s Letters to America (Harper Horizon, June 2021).
Turk’s previous books include When Angels Sing (Algonquin), which became the feature film Angels Sing, and the NY Times bestseller The Tao of Willie, coauthored by Turk and American music legend Willie Nelson.
In his innovative 2019 publishing project, Turk Pipkin’s Book of the every-other-Month club, Turk authored and published a subscription series of six new books in one year, including the novel The Moleskin Mystery. The series funded construction and library books for seven new school libraries in rural Kenya.
In addition to his feature docs Nobelity, One Peace at a Time and Building Hope (Audience Award winner at SXSW Film Fest), Turk has directed dozens of short films, often partnering with conservation groups on global campaigns.
Turk also helms The Nobelity Project’s partner projects, working with local communities to build classrooms, water systems, and libraries at 50 rural Kenyan schools, on reforestation and tree-planting programs in Kenya, Mexico and Texas, and on library and literacy projects in Kenya, Honduras, Mexico and the U.S. More information at www.nobelity.org.
