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Matthew McConaughey

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Matthew McConaughey is the Academy Award–winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Greenlights. He also created Greenlights: Your Journal, Your Journey, a guided companion that inspires readers to write down and reflect on their feelings, adventures and dreams. Matthew and his wife, Camila, founded the just keep livin Foundation, which is dedicated to empowering high school students by providing them with the tools to lead active lives and make healthy choices for a better future. He is a professor of practice and a Minister of Culture for the University of Texas at Austin, where he lives with his wife and three children. Matthew is a storyteller, a tree house builder and a pickle expert.

You can visit Matthew on Instagram @OfficiallyMcConaughey or on Twitter @McConaughey

Books by Matthew McConaughey

Just Because

The debut picture book by Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author Matthew McConaughey

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