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Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936 – March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. [1] His novels included Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted into films.
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Mar 26, 2021 · While some outlets estimated that Larry had anywhere between $1.5 million and $5.5 million at the time of his death, it's unclear just what his net worth was. Our thoughts are with Larry's loved ones at this time.
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Mar 26, 2021 · Larry McMurtry, a prolific writer who wrote mostly about the American West and who won a Pulitzer Prize for the sweeping novel "Lonesome Dove," died Thursday, according to a family...
Mar 26, 2021 · Larry McMurtry remembered by writers, actors, fans: ‘RIP, cowboy. Horseman, pass by’. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry in 2014 at his Texas bookstore. News of the death of...
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McMurtry wrote more than 30 novels, many of which were adapted into well-known movies. His debut novel, 1961’s “Horseman, Pass By,” became the Paul Newman movie “Hud.” “The Last Picture Show” (1966), “Terms of Endearment” (1975), and “Texasville” (1987) were also adapted into films. And then there was “Lonesome Dove” (1985), the novel that won McMu...
McMurtry didn’t adapt his own novels for the screen, but he did write screenplays. With his occasional writing partner, Diana Ossana, he adapted “Brokeback Mountain” from an Annie Proulx short story into one of the biggest and most controversial films of the 2000s. They shared the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. McMurtry also wrote TV fi...
In 1970, McMurtry opened the Washington, DC bookstore Booked Up. 18 years later, he opened a second branch of Booked Up in his hometown of Archer City, Texas. He focused on the Archer City location, building it to one of the largest used bookstores in the U.S., at one time sprawling across six buildings and carrying more than 400,000 titles. McMurt...
“I’ve tried as hard as I could to demythologize the West. Can’t do it. It’s impossible. I wrote a book called ‘Lonesome Dove,’ which I thought was a long critique of western mythology. It is now the chief source of western mythology. I didn’t shake it up at all. I actually think of ‘Lonesome Dove’ as the ‘Gone With the Wind’ of the West.” —from a 2...
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. Born in Texas in 1936, the Lonesome Dove...
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Mar 26, 2021 · Author and Oscar-winning screenwriter Larry McMurtry has died; he was a beloved but unsentimental chronicler of the American West whose works included Lonesome Dove and The Last Picture Show.
