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26 mar 2021 · By Dwight Garner. Published March 26, 2021 Updated Sept. 12, 2023. Larry McMurtry, a prolific novelist and screenwriter who demythologized the American West with his unromantic depictions of...
31 mar 2021 · Larry McMurtry, who has died aged 84, was a bestselling novelist whose books spawned films as varied as The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment. He was also the Oscar-winning screenwriter...
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McMurtry wrote more than 30 novels, many of which were adapted into well-known movies. His debut novel, 1961’s “Horseman, Pass By,” became the Paul Newman movie “Hud.” “The Last Picture Show” (1966), “Terms of Endearment” (1975), and “Texasville” (1987) were also adapted into films. And then there was “Lonesome Dove” (1985), the novel that won McMu...
McMurtry didn’t adapt his own novels for the screen, but he did write screenplays. With his occasional writing partner, Diana Ossana, he adapted “Brokeback Mountain” from an Annie Proulx short story into one of the biggest and most controversial films of the 2000s. They shared the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. McMurtry also wrote TV fi...
In 1970, McMurtry opened the Washington, DC bookstore Booked Up. 18 years later, he opened a second branch of Booked Up in his hometown of Archer City, Texas. He focused on the Archer City location, building it to one of the largest used bookstores in the U.S., at one time sprawling across six buildings and carrying more than 400,000 titles. McMurt...
“I’ve tried as hard as I could to demythologize the West. Can’t do it. It’s impossible. I wrote a book called ‘Lonesome Dove,’ which I thought was a long critique of western mythology. It is now the chief source of western mythology. I didn’t shake it up at all. I actually think of ‘Lonesome Dove’ as the ‘Gone With the Wind’ of the West.” —from a 2...
26 mar 2021 · Larry McMurtry, a prolific, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Oscar-winning screenwriter, has died at age 84. He was beloved for riveting and yet unsentimental depictions of the American West...
26 mar 2021 · Advertisement. Obituaries. Larry McMurtry, author of ‘Lonesome Dove’ and ‘The Last Picture Show,’ dies. Larry McMurtry in his Archer City, Texas, bookstore in 2014. (LM Otero / Associated...
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Larry McMurtry. Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936 – March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. [1] . His novels included Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted into films.
26 mar 2021 · Larry McMurtry Obituary. Larry McMurtry was an author and screenwriter known for novels including “Lonesome Dove” and “The Last Picture Show” as well as his Oscar-winning adapted screenplay for...
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