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Larry McMurtry was born in 1936 on a ranch outside of Archer City, Texas. His first library was a set of 19 books given to him by a cousin setting off for war in 1942. McMurtry read and reread the adventure novels. The gift, he once wrote, “changed my life.”
Mar 26, 2021 · Larry McMurtry ’60, who launched his writing career as a student at Rice University — a place he considered his “intellectual home”— and became famous for such memorable novels as “Lonesome Dove,” “The Last Picture Show” and “Terms of Endearment” among his dozens of other books and screenplays, has died. He was 84.
Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936 – March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. His novels included Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted into films.
Mar 26, 2021 · Larry Jeff McMurtry was born in Wichita Falls, Tex., on June 3, 1936. He graduated from what is now the University of North Texas in 1958 and received a master’s degree in English from Rice ...
Mar 27, 2021 · Larry McMurtry at his bookstore, Booked Up No. 1, in Archer City, Texas, before auctioning off more than 300,000 books at "The Last Book Sale" in August 2012.
Oct 6, 2023 · October 6, 2023 at 6:30 a.m. EDT. Larry McMurtry sits in his Georgetown bookstore, Booked Up, in 1978. (Diana Walker/Getty Images) 7 min. To be a Texas writer these last 50 years or so is to labor ...
Mar 26, 2021 · Larry McMurtry, the prolific and popular author who took readers back to the old American West in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove and returned them to modern-day landscapes in works ...
