Larry McMurtry
Novelist, Author
1936 –
Who is Larry McMurtry?
Larry Jeff McMurtry is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas. He is known for his 1975 novel Terms of Endearment, his 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, a historical saga that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive their cattle from the Rio Grande to a new home in the frontier of Montana, and for co-writing the adapted screenplay for Brokeback Mountain. Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries and both the films of Terms of Endearment and Brokeback Mountain won Academy Awards.
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- Born
- Jun 3, 1936
Archer City - Also known as
- Larry Jeff McMurtry
- Parents
- Spouses
- Jo Scott McMurtry
(1959/07/15 - 1966) - Norma Faye Kesey
(2011/04/29 - )
- Jo Scott McMurtry
- Children
- Ethnicity
- White American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Arts, Rice University
English Studies
( - 1960) - University of North Texas
- Archer City High School
- Master of Arts, Rice University
- Lived in
- Wichita Falls
- Texas
- Archer City
(1997 - )
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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