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Larry McMurtry


Born
in Wichita Falls, Texas, The United States
June 03, 1936

Died
March 25, 2021

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction


Larry Jeff McMurtry was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. His novels included Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted into films. Films adapted from McMurtry's works earned 34 Oscar nominations (13 wins). He was also a prominent book collector and bookseller.
His 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries that earned 18 Emmy Award nominations (seven wins). The subsequent three novels in his Lonesome Dove series were adapted as three more miniseries, earning eight more Emmy nominations. McMurtry and co-writer Diana Ossana adapted the scre ...more

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Average rating: 4.27 · 455,182 ratings · 34,371 reviews · 150 distinct works • Similar authors
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dov...
4.57 avg rating — 236,663 ratings — published 1985 — 129 editions
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Terms of Endearment
4.13 avg rating — 26,518 ratings — published 1975 — 83 editions
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Streets of Laredo (Lonesome...
4.11 avg rating — 25,825 ratings — published 1993 — 68 editions
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Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome D...
4.06 avg rating — 24,336 ratings — published 1995 — 71 editions
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Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dov...
4.15 avg rating — 20,831 ratings — published 1997 — 75 editions
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The Last Picture Show
4.01 avg rating — 21,155 ratings — published 1966 — 103 editions
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Sin Killer (The Berrybender...
3.67 avg rating — 5,867 ratings — published 2002 — 34 editions
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Horseman, Pass By
3.93 avg rating — 5,456 ratings — published 1961
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Texasville
3.75 avg rating — 5,175 ratings — published 1987 — 47 editions
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All My Friends Are Going to...
3.83 avg rating — 4,776 ratings — published 1972 — 40 editions
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Series by Larry McMurtry

Lonesome Dove Streets of Laredo Dead Man's Walk Comanche Moon
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4.47 avg rating — 308,068 ratings

Moving On All My Friends Are Going to... Terms of Endearment Somebody's Darling Some Can Whistle The Evening Star
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4.01 avg rating — 38,353 ratings

The Last Picture Show Texasville Duane's Depressed When the Light Goes Rhino Ranch
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3.91 avg rating — 32,742 ratings

Horseman, Pass By Leaving Cheyenne The Last Picture Show Thalia: A Texas Trilogy
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Sin Killer The Wandering Hill By Sorrow's River Folly and Glory
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“If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
tags: awesome, dealing-with-it, mottos
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“It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
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“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.”
― Larry McMurtry
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Polls

2022 4th Quarter Long Read

 
  60 votes, 28.0%

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, 1985, 960 pages
 
  51 votes, 23.8%

The Winds of War by Herman Wouk, 1971, 886 pages
 
  30 votes, 14.0%

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, 1933, 688 pages
 
  24 votes, 11.2%

 
  19 votes, 8.9%

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, 1960, 864 pages
 
  17 votes, 7.9%

East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood, 1853, 694 pages
 
  13 votes, 6.1%

214 total votes
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