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James McMurtry (born March 18, 1962, in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American rock and folk rock/americana singer, songwriter, guitarist, bandleader, and occasional actor (Daisy Miller, Lonesome Dove, and narrator of Ghost Town: 24 Hours in Terlingua). He performs with veteran bandmates Daren Hess, Cornbread and Tim Holt.
20 ago 2021 · McMurtry and Hogarth first worked together 30 years ago, when Hogarth was a recording engineer in the employ of John Mellencamp at Mellencamp’s own Belmont Studios near Bloomington, Indiana.
5 ott 2021 · Talking to McMurtry recently about his new album “The Horses and the Hounds,” two attempts at icebreakers melted instantly. A salvo trying to ease into a conversation going about Robert Penn...
James McMurtry (Fort Worth, 18 marzo 1962) è un cantautore, chitarrista e attore statunitense. Nato in Texas, figlio dello scrittore Larry McMurtry , si trasferì con la famiglia a Leesburg dove si diplomò.
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According to the astrodatabank website, McMurtry's birth certificate states that he was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, the son of Hazel Ruth (née McIver) and William Jefferson McMurtry. He grew up on his parents' ranch outside Archer City. The city was the model for the town of Thalia which is a setting for much of his fiction. He earned a BA from t...
Writer
During the 1960–1961 academic year, McMurtry was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at the Stanford University Creative Writing Center, where he studied the craft of fiction under Frank O'Connor and Malcolm Cowley, alongside other aspiring writers, including Wendell Berry, Ken Kesey, Peter S. Beagle, and Gurney Norman. (Wallace Stegner was on sabbatical in Europe during McMurtry's fellowship year.) McMurtry and Kesey remained friends after McMurtry left California and returned to Texas to take a year-l...
Antiquarian bookstore businesses
While at Stanford, McMurtry became a rare-book scout. During his years in Houston, he managed a book store called the Bookman. In 1969, he moved to the Washington, D.C., area. In 1970 with two partners, he started a bookshop in Georgetown, which he named Booked Up. In 1988, he opened another Booked Up in Archer City. It became one of the largest antiquarian bookstores in the United States, carrying between 400,000 and 450,000 titles. Citing economic pressures from Internet bookselling, McMurt...
Film and television
McMurtry became well known for the film adaptations of his work, which were seen by many viewers, especially Hud (from the novel Horseman, Pass By), starring Paul Newman and Patricia Neal; the Peter Bogdanovich–directed The Last Picture Show; James L. Brooks's Terms of Endearment, which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture (1984); and Lonesome Dove, which became a popular television miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall. In 2006, he was co-winner (with Diana Ossana)...
McMurtry married Jo Scott, an English professor who has authored five books. Before divorcing, they had a son together, James McMurtry. Both he and his son (Larry's grandson) Curtis McMurtry are singer/songwriters and guitarists. In 1991 McMurtry underwent heart surgery. During his recovery, he suffered severe depression. He recovered at the home o...
Stand-alone novels
1. 1982: Cadillac Jack 2. 1988: Anything For Billy (fictionalized biography of Billy the Kid) 3. 1990: Buffalo Girls (fictionalized biography of Calamity Jane). adapted for TV as Buffalo Girls 4. 1994: Pretty Boy Floyd (with Diana Ossana) (fictionalized biography of the titular gangster) 5. 1997: Zeke and Ned(with Diana Ossana) (fictionalized biography of the last Cherokee warriors) 6. 2000: Boone's Lick 7. 2005: Loop Group 8. 2006: Telegraph Days 9. 2014: The Last Kind Words Saloon
Thalia: A Texas Trilogy
Larry McMurtry's first three novels, all set in the north Texas town of Thalia following World War II. 1. 1961: Horseman, Pass By, adapted for film as Hud 2. 1963: Leaving Cheyenne, adapted for film as Lovin' Molly 3. 1966: The Last Picture Show, adapted for film under the same name
Harmony and Pepper series
The books follow the story of mother/daughter characters Harmony and Pepper. 1. 1983: The Desert Rose 2. 1995: The Late Child
1968: In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas1974: "It's Always We Rambled" (essay)1987: Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood1999: Crazy Horse: A Life(biography)1963: Hud (based on novel Horseman, Pass Byfrom 1961)1971: The Last Picture Show(co-wrote screenplay, based on novel from 1966)1974: Lovin' Molly (based on the novel Leaving Cheyennefrom 1963)1983: Terms of Endearment(based on novel from 1975)1977: The American Film Institute's 10th Anniversary Special(writer)1988: The Murder of Mary Phagan(mini-series based on story)1989: Lonesome Dove(mini-series based on 1985 novel)1990: Montana(original screenplay)Larry McMurtry Collection, from the Rare Book & Texana Collections, University of North TexaswebsiteMcMurtry, Larry. "The Author Who Sold Books", Washingtonian, August 1, 2008.Larry McMurtry Papers 1984–1991, from the Texas State University-San MarcoswebsiteLarry McMurtry at IMDb18 ago 2021 · McMurtry assumes the persona of a new boyfriend of an older woman, whose children have all moved away and left her with none of the activities that have always warded off the depression.
22 lug 1992 · In October 1990, McMurtry took a break from the project to be with his wife, Elena, as they greeted son Curtis' entry into life.
