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Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry
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Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry is 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 lives in Archer City, Texas.

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Custer will be released on October 22, 2013 in Trade Paperback
May 17, 2013
Oh What a Slaughter will be released on April 06, 2013 in Trade Paperback
Apr 06, 2013
Oh What a Slaughter is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 06, 2013
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Excerpt 1 from Last Picture Show
Jan 03, 2013
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Chapter 3 from Custer
Dec 23, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Boone'S Lick
Dec 13, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Film Flam
Dec 08, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Texasville
Dec 08, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Moving On
Dec 08, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Last Picture Show
Dec 07, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen
Dec 07, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Duane's Depressed
Dec 07, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Evening Star
Dec 07, 2012
Custer will be released on November 06, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
Nov 06, 2012
Custer is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Nov 06, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Sin Killer
Aug 30, 2012

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Good Housekeeping UK, May 14, 2013
...try – Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, M. Allen Cunningham, Charles Frazier, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson, and Larry McMurtry. 14. Tell us about some of the books you’ve enjoyed in the past year. Home by Toni Morrison, Maine by...
Houston Chronicle, May 14, 2013
...he opens? ?The Last Picture Show,? the novel (and film) that launched the career of Texas son Larry McMurtry. (It was his third book.) In many ways, ?The Last Picture Show? is about endings: � the ending of youth and the ending of small-town life...
Muskogee Phoenix, May 8, 2013
...Larry McMurtry is an icon of the Texas West. Raised on a horse ranch near Fort Worth and later trained in writing by Wallace Stegner, the “Dean of the Western Writer...
PRWeb, May 7, 2013
...which accompanies the exhibition, tells these remarkable women’s stories in their own words. Novelist, essayist, and screenwriter Larry McMurtry wrote the foreword; Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a 2002 Honoree in the Cowgirl Hall of Fame, wrote the...
Huffington Post, May 4, 2013
...he be the last, to pay his bills writing and doctoring screenplays. William Faulkner, Dorothy Parker, Raymond Chandler, Larry McMurtry, Tom Stoppard and many others have drawn paychecks, and the occasional Oscar, from their work in "the pictures." ...
Texas Observer, May 2, 2013
...When Larry McMurtry agreed in 2011 to guest-judge The Texas Observer’s first short story contest, we at the magazine were thrilled: what better name to attach to a Texas-based writing competition...
New York Times, May 1, 2013
...you know, the Jazz Age. That really helps explain where Texas is coming from. And let’s say Larry McMurtry’s “Terms of Endearment” — a sexy, sprawling mess of a novel that somehow, improbably, totally works...
NUVO, May 9, 2013
...his first in 2005 for Best Short Fiction. Previous winners of the Spur Award also include Elmer Kelton, Larry McMurtry, Richard Matheson, and Tony Hillerman. Sweazy's Josiah Wolfe series won the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western fiction in 2011 and...
Broadway World, May 9, 2013
...which accompanies the exhibition, tells these remarkable women's stories in their own words. Novelist, essayist, and screenwriter Larry McMurtry wrote the foreword; Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a 2002 Honoree in the Cowgirl Hall of Fame, wrote the...
Technology Tell, May 8, 2013
...Funny how things pop into one’s head. In Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize winning western novel,  Lonesome Dove  (and the multi-Emmy-winning, Golden Globes honored mini-series based on it ), Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call’s Hat Creek outfit...
Muskogee Phoenix, May 8, 2013
...Larry McMurtry is an icon of the Texas West. Raised on a horse ranch near Fort Worth and later trained in writing by Wallace Stegner, the “Dean of the Western Writer...
Digital Media Net, May 7, 2013
...name, which accompanies the exhibition, tells these remarkable womens stories in their own words. Novelist, essayist, and screenwriter Larry McMurtry wrote the foreword; Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a 2002 Honoree in the Cowgirl Hall of Fame, wrote the...
DVD Creation, May 7, 2013
...name, which accompanies the exhibition, tells these remarkable womens stories in their own words. Novelist, essayist, and screenwriter Larry McMurtry wrote the foreword; Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a 2002 Honoree in the Cowgirl Hall of Fame, wrote the...
Digital Post Production, May 7, 2013
...name, which accompanies the exhibition, tells these remarkable womens stories in their own words. Novelist, essayist, and screenwriter Larry McMurtry wrote the foreword; Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a 2002 Honoree in the Cowgirl Hall of Fame, wrote the...