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Patrick Beach is one of the best at his craft.
In "Whiskey, water and fate," he traced a story of Texas lives intertwined by a bottle found floating in a river. It's a complicated tale, and seems the type of feature that would require a lot of time to dig up and write. "To be honest, no, I didn't spend as much time on it as I usually do on most of my stories," Beach said. "It was a shorter feature than I typically write. It just sort of fell together." Beach has been at the American-Statesman for three years. Earlier, he worked for 10 years at the Des Moines Register as a music critic and feature writer. In 1999, he won the best short feature category of the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors Awards. He and his wife, Allison, have two children, Adam and Joe. © Cox
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