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Apr 23, 2024 · Larry McMurtry was an American writer noted for his novels set on the frontier, in contemporary small towns, and in increasingly urbanized and industrial areas of Texas. He won a Pulitzer Prize for the epic Lonesome Dove (1985) and an Academy Award for cowriting the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain (2005).
Mar 31, 2021 · Larry McMurtry, who has died aged 84, was a bestselling novelist whose books spawned films as varied as The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment. He was also the Oscar-winning screenwriter...
Mar 26, 2021 · Larry McMurtry, a prolific, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Oscar-winning screenwriter, has died at age 84. He was beloved for riveting and yet unsentimental depictions of the American West...
Apr 2, 2021 · Transcript. Best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, McMurtry wrote more than 30 books and screenplays, many set in the West. He died on March 25. Originally broadcast in...
Mar 26, 2021 · He was 84. Amanda Lundberg confirmed the writer's death to NBC News on Friday. McMurtry died of heart failure at his home in Texas surrounded by his loved ones. Over half a century, McMurtry...
Mar 26, 2021 · Pulitzer Prize and Oscar winner earned master's, taught English and creative writing at Rice. 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 ...
Mar 26, 2021 · Larry McMurtry, the US screenwriter and novelist whose books The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment became Oscar-winning films, has died aged 84.
