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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
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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 Duane's Depressed
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 Evening Star
Dec 07, 2012
Custer is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Nov 06, 2012
Custer will be released on November 06, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
Nov 06, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Sin Killer
Aug 30, 2012

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Atlantic Monthly, April 17, 2013
...Larry McMurtry reviews a  book  written by the legendary folk singer: House of Earth was completed in 1947 but discovered only recently. It is a novel about farming; there aren’t...
Abilene Reflector-Chronicle, April 17, 2013
...Best Juvenile Fiction and is a finalist for Best First Novel. Previous winners of the Spur Award include Larry McMurtry for “Lonesome Dove” and Michael Blake for “Dances with Wolves.” “Wide Open” also won the 2012 Forward National...
New Yorker, April 11, 2013
...poems of my life; they will make my name.? Sarah Churchwell reviews the legacy of Sylvia Plath. Larry McMurtry on Woody Guthrie and his recently discovered novel, ?House of Earth.? Matt Seidel on food in literature: ?A movable feast of culinary riches...
NPR, April 11, 2013
...same for Latin America as the Nobel does for the world." by Romulo Gallegos, Robert Malloy and Larry McMurtry Rómulo Gallegos himself wrote Venezuela's most influential novel, Doña Barbara. Published in 1929, Doña Barbara is at once a political...
PublishersWeekly.com, April 5, 2013
...interpreter of small-town East Texas, Swift is as good as it gets. 4. The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry - Part 1 of what came to be a trilogywith Texasville and Duanes Depressedcentered on the fictional but thoroughly precedented town of Thalia,...
Pegasus News, April 5, 2013
...University, an honor held by such groundbreaking American writers as Ken Kesey, Raymond Carver, and North Texas' own Larry McMurtry. Addressing a room full of old friends, colleagues, former professors, and current SMU students, Bulawayo said, "I...
Futon Critic, April 3, 2013
...include "Baby Boom," "Steel Magnolias", "Defenseless" and "Thunderheart." His notable television films and miniseries have included Larry McMurtry's "Streets of Laredo,"" Lily Dale," "Purgaty," "Dash and Lilly" (which brought him both Golden Globe and...
RoadRunner, April 11, 2013
...the fast-growing self-publishing market with its new service, Nook Press. “” Sarah Churchwell reviews the legacy of Sylvia Plath. Larry McMurtry on... Full Article at The New Yorker...
New Yorker, April 11, 2013
...poems of my life; they will make my name.? Sarah Churchwell reviews the legacy of Sylvia Plath. Larry McMurtry on Woody Guthrie and his recently discovered novel, ?House of Earth.? Matt Seidel on food in literature: ?A movable feast of culinary riches...
NPR, April 11, 2013
...same for Latin America as the Nobel does for the world." by Romulo Gallegos, Robert Malloy and Larry McMurtry Rómulo Gallegos himself wrote Venezuela's most influential novel, Doña Barbara. Published in 1929, Doña Barbara is at once a political...
Rice University, April 10, 2013
...Famous Texas authors Justin Cronin, distinguished faculty fellow in English, and alumnus Larry McMurtry ’60 appear in a photo slideshow of famous Texas authors. Beaumont Enterprise (This slideshow also appeared in the Stamford Advocate, the...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, April 7, 2013
...Kirk Douglas, Larry King and Shelley Winters, authors such as David McCullough, Richard Rhodes, Michael Beschloss, Cornelius Ryan, Larry McMurtry, Jacqueline Susann, Jackie Collins and Mary Higgins Clark. For more information about the lecture, call...
Poughkeepsie Journal, April 7, 2013
...Kirk Douglas, Larry King and Shelley Winters, authors such as David McCullough, Richard Rhodes, Michael Beschloss, Cornelius Ryan, Larry McMurtry, Jacqueline Susann, Jackie Collins and Mary Higgins Clark. For more information about the lecture, call...
Poughkeepsie Journal, April 7, 2013
...Kirk Douglas, Larry King and Shelley Winters, authors such as David McCullough, Richard Rhodes, Michael Beschloss, Cornelius Ryan, Larry McMurtry, Jacqueline Susann, Jackie Collins and Mary Higgins Clark. For more information about the lecture, call...