Turk Pipkin

In 2006, Pipkin founded the non-profit organization The Nobelity Project with his wife, Christy Pipkin. After interviewing nine Nobel Laureates, he directed Nobelity, a film about global problems such as energy, hunger, land mines, and climate change. He then spent 3 years traveling to 5 continents and 20 countries filming a sequel, One Peace at a Time, which focuses on solutions in the areas of water, nutrition, education, health care, opportunity, environment and peace. In 2011 The Nobelity Project released their third film, entitled Building Hope about construction of Mahiga Hope High School in rural Kenya. The Nobel Laureates he worked with include Desmond Tutu, Wangari Maathai, Ahmed Zewail, Steven Chu (former U.S. Secretary of Energy), Harold Varmus, Steven Weinberg, Muhammad Yunus, Amartya Sen, Jody Williams, Sir Joseph Rotblat and Richard Smalley. The work with Roblat and Smalley were the final major interviews of their lives.

Pipkin is also the project leader for The Nobelity Project’s work to build Mahiga Hope High School in the Aberdare Mountains of Kenya. Pipkin is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, and in 2010 received the White Lotus Humanitarian Award from the Government of China at the Macau International Digital Film Festival.

Turk Pipkin has worked as a screen and television writer, as a freelance journalist and contributing editor for numerous national magazines, and has authored nine books of fiction and nonfiction. His most recent book is the New York Times bestseller,[1] The Tao of Willie, co-authored with Willie Nelson. His novels include Fast Greens, and When Angels Sing which was adapted as a feature film under the title Angels Sing. He has written for multiple television productions.

Writing credits include:

• When Angels Sing (Algonquin Books) Author. (Released as the movie Angels Sing produced by Fred Miller)
• Fast Greens (Hardback Edition, Dial Press). (In development with Warner Bros/1492 Productions)
• The Old Man and the Tee (St. Martin’s Press) Author
• Born of the River (Softshoe Publishing) Author
• Harry Anderson's Games You Can't Lose (Pocket Books) Co-author
• Barton Springs Eternal, The Soul of a City (Softshoe Publishing) Co-editor
• Be a Clown! (Workman Books)
• Texas Monthly magazine, contributing editor

Turk Pipkin is most known as an actor for his work in the HBO series' The Sopranos, The Leftovers and in the feature films The Alamo, Friday Night Lights, Waiting for Guffman and Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly.

• Turk Pipkin at IMDb
• TurkPipkin.com
• http://nobelity.org/