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   4 days ago · In the course of his prolific career, McMurtry authored over thirty novels and fourteen books of nonfiction and wrote or co-wrote more than forty screenplays and teleplays. He received the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Lonesome Dove and won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Brokeback Mountain .

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   Jul 17, 2024 · Many of his books became films, including The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment. His coauthored screenplay for Brokeback Mountain earned him an Oscar in 2005. But it was Lonesome Dove that cemented McMurtry's reputation as chronicler of an unromanticized West.

3. www.barnesandnoble.com › w › lonesome-dove-larryLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry | eBook | Barnes & Noble®

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   Jul 17, 2024 · Larry McMurtry (1936–2021) was the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lived in Archer City, Texas.

   • ISBN-13: 9781.5B
   • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

   • Publication date: 06/01/2010
   • Series: Lonesome Dove Series

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5. www.barnesandnoble.com › w › larry-mcmurtry-tracyLarry McMurtry: A Life by Tracy Daugherty | eBook | Barnes ...

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   Jul 17, 2024 · In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains’ keenest witness since Willa Cather and Wallace Stegner.

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   • Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

   • Publication date: 09/12/2023
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   Jul 16, 2024 · His first three novels (Horseman, Pass By, Leaving Cheyenne and The Last Picture Show) all take place in the 1950s - firmly after the typical post-Civil War setting for a Western. The mythologizing and romancing of the West was exactly the kind of thing that really bugged McMurtry.

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   Jul 17, 2024 · This installment of Pulitzer Prize winner McMurtry’s memoirs consists of charming vignettes of his 40 years as a Hollywood screenwriter. His hits include the novels on which the film HUD and the TV miniseries LONESOME DOVE were based, as well as the screenplay for BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.

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   How many books has Larry McMurtry written?

   • Ships from and sold by AustraliaBooks4u. Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-one novels, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He has a reputation as a critically acclaimed author that is unequalled.

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   Did Larry McMurtry ever write a story?

   • Certainly, no stories ever came from her. DAVIES: Larry McMurtry speaking with Terry Gross in 1995. He wrote the novels "Lonesome Dove," "The Last Picture Show" and "Terms Of Endearment" and many other books. He died last week at the age of 85. We'll hear more of their interview after a break.

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   Did Larry McMurtry go on a book tour?

   • Rarely one to go on a book tour, Larry McMurtry, along with Diana Ossana, showed up at the KPFA studios to publicize Pretty Boy Floyd, and it was there on, October 13, 1994, that Richard A. Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky had a chance to talk with both of them about their book, and with Larry McMurtry about his career.

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   How did Larry McMurtry die?

   • Larry McMurtry, with Diana Ossana, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded October 13, 1994 while on tour for the collaborative novel, Pretty Boy Floyd. Larry McMurtry, the regional novelist who became an iconic American literary figure, died of congestive heart failure at the age of 84 on March 25, 2021.

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   Jul 2, 2024 · The author of such classic novels as Lonesome Dove, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment and Desert Rose, he also wrote over thirty screenplays, many of them in collaboration with Diana Ossana, with whom he lived for several decades.