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Mar 26, 2021 · Photo: LM Otero/Associated Press. DALLAS—Larry McMurtry, the prolific and popular author who took readers back to the old American West in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Lonesome Dove ...
Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936 – March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter. [1] His novels included Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975). Movies inspired by McMurtry's works earned 34 Oscar nominations (13 wins). His 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ...
Mar 26, 2021 · A spokeswoman for the family confirmed his death, but did not yet give a cause. McMurtry won a Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for his book Lonesome Dove, about two retired Texas Rangers who drove stolen cattle from the Rio Grande to Montana. “It isn’t a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination,” he told Texas Monthly in 2016.
Mar 26, 2021 · Larry McMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose novels, such as “The Last Picture Show,” “Terms of Endearment” and “Lonesome Dove,” were turned into award-winning films and who ...
Mar 26, 2021 · The author of nearly 30 novels, about 15 works of nonfiction and more than 40 screenplays and teleplays, McMurtry died on Thursday of heart failure at his home in Tucson at 84, according to his publicist, Amanda Lundberg. Known for outspoken, brassy characters and a rare ability to cast scenes with raw, tender and often comic emotions, McMurtry ...
Mar 26, 2021 · Larry McMurtry, author of ‘Lonesome Dove’ and ‘The Last Picture Show,’ dies. Larry McMurtry in his Archer City, Texas, bookstore in 2014. After Augustus McCrae came out on the porch to see ...
Mar 26, 2021 · March 26, 2021 · 5 min read. Larry McMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose novels, such as “ The Last Picture Show ,” “ Terms of Endearment ” and “ Lonesome Dove ,” were ...
