Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is an American author of many novels, and a screenwriter. He is also a book collector and dealer known for establishing the unlikely locale of Archer City, Texas as a major American "Book City."
- 1961 - Horseman, Pass By
- 1963 - Leaving Cheyenne - adapted for film as Lovin' Molly
- 1966 - The Last Picture Show - adapted into a film of the same name
- 1968 - In A Narrow Grave
- 1970 - Moving On
- 1972 - All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers
- 1974 - It's Always We Rambled (essay)
- 1975 - Terms Of Endearment - adapted into a film of the same name
- 1978 - Somebody's Darling
- 1982 - Cadillac Jack
- 1983 - Desert Rose
- 1985 - Lonesome Dove, 1986 Pulitzer Prize winner, and first of what became a series
- 1987 - Texasville - adapted into a film of the same name
- 1987 - Film Flam
- 1988 - Anything For Billy
- 1989 - Some Can Whistle
- 1990 - Buffalo Girls
- 1992 - The Evening Star
- 1993 - Streets of Laredo, another in the Lonesome Dove series
- 1994 - Pretty Boy Floyd (with Diana Ossana)
- 1995 - Dead Man's Walk, another in the Lonesome Dove series
- 1995 - The Late Child
- 1997 - Comanche Moon, the last as of 2004 of the Lonesome Dove series
- 1997 - Zeke and Ned
- 1999 - Duane's Depressed
- 1999 - Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen
- 2001 - Sacagawea's Nickname (essays on the American West)
- 2002 - Sin Killer
- 2003 - The Wandering Hill
- 2003 - By Sorrow's River
- 2004 - Folly and Glory
External links
- Larry McMurtry Papers 1984-1991 (http://www.library.swt.edu/swwc/archives/writers/mcmurtry.html), from the Texas State University-San Marcos website
- Guide to the Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana Papers, with Biography (http://www.rice.edu/fondren/woodson/mss/ms276.html), from the Rice University website
- Page on the author (http://www.nybooks.com/authors/3), from the New York Review of Books website
- Featured author article (http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/mcmurtry.html), from the New York Times website
- Filmography (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0573505/) from the IMDb