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Larry McMurtry
Author · 53 books

Larry McMurtry was born in Wichita Falls, Texas on June 3, 1936. He is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two essay collections, and more than thirty screenplays. His first published book, Horseman, Pass By, was adapted into the film "Hud." A number of his other novels also were adapted into movies as well as a television mini-series. Among many other accolades, in 2006 he was the co-winner of both the Best Screenplay Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Brokeback Mountain."

Series

Books

Somebody's Darling book cover

Somebody's Darling

1978

Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen book cover

Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen

Reflections at Sixty and Beyond

1999

Leaving Cheyenne book cover

Leaving Cheyenne

1962

Lonesome Dove, Épisode 1 book cover

Lonesome Dove, Épisode 1

1985

When the Light Goes book cover

When the Light Goes

2007

Zeke and Ned book cover

Zeke and Ned

1997

Literary Life book cover

Literary Life

A Second Memoir

2009

Still Wild book cover

Still Wild

Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present

2000

Roads book cover

Roads

Driving America's Great Highways

2000

By Sorrow's River book cover

By Sorrow's River

2003

In a Narrow Grave book cover

In a Narrow Grave

Essays on Texas

1968

Sin Killer book cover

Sin Killer

2002

Custer book cover

Custer

2012

Telegraph Days book cover

Telegraph Days

2006

Terms of Endearment book cover

Terms of Endearment

1975

Lonesome Dove, Part 2 of 3 book cover

Lonesome Dove, Part 2 of 3

1985

Buffalo Girls book cover

Buffalo Girls

1990

Film Flam book cover

Film Flam

Essays on Hollywood

1987

All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers book cover

All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers

1972

Paradise book cover

Paradise

2001

Lonesome Dove, Épisode 2 book cover

Lonesome Dove, Épisode 2

1991

Horseman, Pass By book cover

Horseman, Pass By

1961

The Wandering Hill book cover

The Wandering Hill

2003

Hollywood book cover

Hollywood

A Third Memoir

2010

Cavallo Pazzo. Storia del capo sioux che vinse a Little Bighorn book cover

Cavallo Pazzo. Storia del capo sioux che vinse a Little Bighorn

1999

Lonesome Dove, Part 1 of 3

1920

Books book cover

Books

A Memoir

2008

Lonesome Dove book cover

Lonesome Dove

1985

The Desert Rose book cover

The Desert Rose

1983

Texasville book cover

Texasville

1987

The Late Child book cover

The Late Child

1995

Sacagawea's Nickname book cover

Sacagawea's Nickname

Essays on the American West

2001

Cadillac Jack book cover

Cadillac Jack

1982

Some Can Whistle book cover

Some Can Whistle

1989

Boone's Lick book cover

Boone's Lick

2000

A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove book cover

A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove

2007

Moving On Part 2 Of 2 book cover

Moving On Part 2 Of 2

1970

Larry McMurtry book cover

Larry McMurtry

Three Complete Novels

1994

The Colonel and Little Missie book cover

The Colonel and Little Missie

Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America

2005

Dead Man's Walk book cover

Dead Man's Walk

1995

The Last Picture Show book cover

The Last Picture Show

1966

Pretty Boy Floyd book cover

Pretty Boy Floyd

1994

The Lonesome Dove Chronicles book cover

The Lonesome Dove Chronicles

1993

Comanche Moon book cover

Comanche Moon

1997

Anything for Billy book cover

Anything for Billy

1988

Duane's Depressed book cover

Duane's Depressed

1999

Oh What a Slaughter book cover

Oh What a Slaughter

Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890

2005

Folly and Glory book cover

Folly and Glory

2004

Streets of Laredo book cover

Streets of Laredo

1993

The Last Kind Words Saloon book cover

The Last Kind Words Saloon

2014

Moving On book cover

Moving On

1970

Loop Group book cover

Loop Group

2004

Rhino Ranch book cover

Rhino Ranch

2009

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