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His 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries that earned 18 Emmy Award nominations (seven wins). Films adapted from McMurtry's works earned 34 Oscar nominations (13 wins). His novels included Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted into films. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1989.Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936 – March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, prominent book collector, bookseller and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. Taking Stock : a Larry McMurtry Casebook. Larry McMurtry in film collection, Ag1986.0569x. Archer City, Tex.: Three Dog Press, 2006.

The Bookman : a Story About Larry McMurtry’s Other Day Job. Please contact questions about Larry McMurtry books and manuscripts in DeGolyer Library.īonner, Stayton. Promotional materials for McMurtry’s films are available in the Larry McMurtry In Film Collection, which includes movie posters, pressbooks, and trailers. Works about Larry McMurtry include Taking Stock: A Larry McMurtry Casebook by Clay Reynolds, published by SMU Press and The Bookman: A Story About Larry McMurtry’s Other Day Job by Stayton Bonner. Larry McMurtry inscription to Franklin and Mary Gilliam A separate selection of McMurtry’s personal letters are also available in the library, and the one above addressed to Franklin Gilliam talks about his “cowboy-novel-to-end-all-cowboy-novels”: Lonesome Dove. The DeGolyer Library has some of McMurtry’s personal letters in both Gilliam and Jenkins’ collections. He purchased from book dealers like Franklin Gilliam and John Holmes Jenkins. Larry McMurtry letter to Franklin Gilliam, 1983īooked Up, Larry McMurtry’s book store, began in Washington D.C in 1970, and moved to his hometown in Archer City in 1988. In 1969 his novel, The Last Picture Show, shared the Texas Institute of Letters award for best fiction with Tom Pendleton’s novel Iron Orchard. His best known works include Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, and Brokeback Mountain. Larry McMurtry was an author and bookseller from Archer City, Texas who wrote about Texas and the American West to worldwide acclaim.