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Larry McMurtry
Larry Jeff McMurtry was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. During a career spanning six decades, he wrote more than thirty novels, numerous essays and memoirs, and approximately fifty screenplays. Films adapted from McMurtry's works earned 34 Oscar nominations with 13 wins, and his novels were the basis fo…
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Born 3 June 1936 · Died 25 March 2021 · Q611672
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2026· 2 entries
Yahoo: Larry McMurtry novel's 60th anniversary to be celebrated
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2025· 2 entries
WWNO: A literary center named for author Larry McMurtry breathes life into his Texas hometown
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The New York Times: Larry McMurtry
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2024· 3 entries
Dallas Morning News: I'm helping preserve Larry McMurtry's legacy in Archer City
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Yahoo: Larry McMurtry's iconic bookstore sold to nonprofit
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The Archer City Writer's Workshop acquired the building and its estimated 300,000 volumes for the Larry McMurtry Literary Center that attracts travelers
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2023· 3 entries
Dallas Morning News: Larry McMurtry's life remembered
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Wall Street Journal: ‘Larry McMurtry’ Review: A Prairie Boy and a Book Man
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CNN: Chip Gaines purchases author Larry McMurtry’s historic Texas bookstore
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2021· 1 entry
Died 2021-03-25.
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2014· 3 entries
Won National Humanities Medal (2014).
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Awarded Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2014).
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Received the National Humanities Medal
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2009· 1 entry
Talked about getting old and creative efforts: "I don't have as much creative energy as I did, and I parcel it out
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2008· 1 entry
Said this was still his method, although by then, he wrote 10 pages a day
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2006· 4 entries
Awarded Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Brokeback Mountain (2006).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Brokeback Mountain (2006).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for Brokeback Mountain (2006).
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Was co-winner (with Ossana) of both the Best Screenplay Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Brokeback Mountain, adapted from a short story by E
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2005· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for Brokeback Mountain (2005).
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But chose to keep it open after great public support
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Spur Award for Best Novel of the West for Comanche Moon (1998).
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1991· 1 entry
McMurtry underwent heart surgery
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1989· 1 entry
McMurtry testified on behalf of PEN America before the U
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1988· 1 entry
Opened another Booked Up in Archer City
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1986· 3 entries
Awarded Helmerich Award (1986).
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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Lonesome Dove (1986).
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McMurtry received the annual Peggy V
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Spur Award for Best Western Novel for Lonesome Dove (1985).
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1970· 1 entry
Started a bookshop in Georgetown with two partners, which he named Booked Up
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1966· 1 entry
For Texas: Good Times Gone or Here Again
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1964· 1 entry
McMurtry was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
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1963· 2 entries
“It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums.”
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Returned to Rice University, where he served as a lecturer in English until 1969, and a visiting professor at George Mason College (1970) and American University (1970–71)
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1962· 1 entry
For Horseman, Pass By; in 1967, for The Last Picture Show, which he shared with Tom Pendleton's The Iron Orchard; and in 1986, for Lonesome Dove
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1960· 1 entry
Studied at Rice University, Master of Arts (1960).
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1958· 1 entry
The Southwest Review accepted a poem from McMurtry, his first publication in a major journal
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1942· 1 entry
McMurtry's cousin Robert Hilburn stopped by the ranch house on his way to enlist for World War II, and left a box containing 19 boys' adventure books from the 1930s
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1936· 2 entries
Born 1936-06-03.
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The eldest of four children of Hazel Ruth (née McIver) and William Jefferson (Jeff Mac) McMurtry
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