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Larry McMurtry

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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 McMurtry was born in Wichita Falls, Texas on June 3, 1936. He is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two essay collections, and more than thirty screenplays.

His first published book, Horseman, Pass By, was adapted into the film "Hud." A number of his other novels also were adapted into movies as well as a television mini-series.

Among many other accolades, in 2006 he was the co-winner of both the Best Screenplay Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Brokeback Mountain." ...more

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Average rating: 4.21 · 348,991 ratings · 21,992 reviews · 189 distinct works • Similar authors
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dov...
4.52 avg rating — 177,378 ratings — published 1985 — 122 editions
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Terms of Endearment
4.14 avg rating — 24,914 ratings — published 1975 — 73 editions
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Streets of Laredo (Lonesome...
4.03 avg rating — 17,329 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions
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The Last Picture Show
3.99 avg rating — 17,422 ratings — published 1966 — 92 editions
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Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome D...
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16,250 ratings — published 1995 — 54 editions
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Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dov...
4.09 avg rating — 14,889 ratings — published 1997 — 71 editions
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Sin Killer (The Berrybender...
3.66 avg rating — 4,850 ratings — published 2002 — 28 editions
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Texasville
3.72 avg rating — 4,589 ratings — published 1987 — 44 editions
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Horseman, Pass By
3.94 avg rating — 4,284 ratings — published 1961 — 55 editions
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All My Friends Are Going to...
3.86 avg rating — 3,869 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions
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Lonesome Dove Streets of Laredo Dead Man's Walk Comanche Moon
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Moving On All My Friends Are Going to... Terms of Endearment Somebody's Darling Some Can Whistle
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The Last Picture Show Texasville Duane's Depressed When the Light Goes Rhino Ranch
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Horseman, Pass By Leaving Cheyenne The Last Picture Show Thalia: A Texas Trilogy
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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.”
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