Larry Mcmurtry's Complete Bookshelf
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Considered one of America's most gifted authors of popular fiction, Larry McMurtry's reputation rests on his entertaining, funny, and incisive portraits of Texas life, past and present. From his first novel, Horseman Pass By, and most spectacularly with his historical epic Lonesome Dove, McMurtry has presented the complex realities of a region shrouded in the legends of the American West.

McMurtry grew up in tiny Archer City, Texas, the son and grandson of cattle ranchers. He was a bookish kid in a place that didn't much value books--one of the many misgivings McMurtry had about his hometown. But he soaked in the family stories about ranching, a culture that was vanishing with the rise of the oil industry.

McMurtry's first three novels, including The Last Picture Show, focused on small Texas ranching towns not unlike Archer City. In 1970, McMurtry moved to Washington, DC, and his writing turned away from cowboy life for many years. He set novels in Houston (Terms of Endearment), Hollywood (Somebody's Darling), and Las Vegas (The Desert Rose). In 1985, McMurtry again trained his sights on frontier Texas, launching his excavation of western myth with Lonesome Dove. His myth-busting continued in bestsellers such as Buffalo Girls and Streets of Laredo, the second book of the Lonesome Dove quartet.

AWARDS

Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Lonesome Dove, 1986
Spur Award from Western Writers of America and Texas Literary Award from Southwestern Booksellers Association for Lonesome Dove, 1986
Academy Award for screenplay based on another medium for The Last Picture Show, 1972
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1964
Jesse H. Jones Award from Texas Institute of Letters for Horseman, Pass By, 1962
Wallace Stegner Fellowship, 1960

Larry Mcmurtry's Complete BOOKSHELF Here

Comanche Moon (1997)
Zeke and Ned (with Diana Ossana, 1997)
Dead Man's Walk (with Diana Ossana, 1996)
The Late Child (1995)
Pretty Boy Floyd(1994)
Streets of Laredo (1993)
The Evening Star (1992)
Buffalo Girls (1990)
Some Can Whistle (1989)
Anything for Billy (1988)
Texasville (1987)
Film Flam(1987)
Lonesome Dove (1985)
The Desert Rose (1983)
Cadillac Jack (1982)
Somebody's Darling (1978)

Larry Mcmurtry's Complete BOOKSHELF Here

Terms of Endearment (1975)
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (1972)
Moving On (1970)
In a Narrow Grave(1968)
The Last Picture Show (1966)
Leaving Cheyenne (1963)
Horseman, Pass By (1961)
Lily White (1996)
After All These Years (1993)
Magic Hour (1991)
Shining Through (1988)
Almost Paradise (1984)
Close Relations (1980)
Compromising Positions (1978)

Larry Mcmurtry's Complete BOOKSHELF Here

 

 

 

 

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