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	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Larry McMurtry
		McMurtry's first novels dealt with life in the West but it wasn't until LONESOME DOVE, for which he won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, that he met with worldwide recognition for being the master storyteller he is.
		Yet for all the brilliance of his sweeping Western sagas, I will always remember Larry McMurtry as the inventor of the irrepressible Aurora Greenway and the daughter with whom she is constantly at odds in TERMS OF ENDEARMENT.
		Larry McMurtry was born on June 3rd, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-mcmurtry-larry.asp (847 words)

	Salon Reviews \| "Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen" by Larry McMurtry
		Larry McMurtry has always been an elegist; nearly every one of his 23 prior books -- the bulk of them novels set amid the muted vistas and bald beige plains of McMurtry's West Texas homeland -- is suffused with a bluesy sense of waning, of loss at half-speed.
		McMurtry has never been afraid in his fiction to permit a minor character to step downstage, perform a quick pirouette and then vanish.
		Like McMurtry, L'Amour was an autodidact (more so, in truth), a prodigious and vastly catholic reader and a mourner of great bookshops gone, with a keen interest in the reading habits of other writers.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/1999/11/29/mcmurtry/print.html (612 words)

	Larry McMurtry's Dream Job
		McMurtry thought he had written an anti-Western, one that critics and readers then perversely took to be the greatest Western ever.
		McMurtry's first bookstore in Archer City, called the Blue Pig, was run by one of his sisters, Sue Deen.
		McMurtry hopes that Archer City, which is two hours northwest of Dallas, will eventually attract other stores driven out of the big cities by high rents, and he's involved with a plan to rebuild the town's old movie house and turn it into a regional theater.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/97/12/07/home/article2.html (2902 words)

	Amazon.de: Horseman, Pass by: English Books: Larry McMurtry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the old rancher, Homer Bannon, and in Jesse, the cowboy with wanderlust, McMurtry paints portraits of good, hardworking men who know that their time has passed, to be usurped by the violent Hud, a new kind of Western businessman whose main goal is to make a buck in any way possible.
		McMurtry's descriptions of the wide, open prairies and the ache that these vistas create in the young man are superbly drawn and leanly poetic.
		McMurtry's economy of language is accompanied by dozens of sharp-eyed observations of rural and small-town life.
	www.amazon.de /Horseman-Pass-Larry-McMurtry/dp/0671754998 (725 words)

	McMurtry_Larry_tx
		Larry McMurtry was born on a ranch in Wichita Falls, Texas near Archer City in 1936.
		McMurtry was most influenced by the writings of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Tolstoy, the Russians, and French.
		McMurtry's novels are generally set on the theme of the American West and focus on human relations.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/mcmurtry_larry_tx.htm (312 words)

	Mcmurtry, Larry (1936—) Biography \| sjpc_03_package.xml
		McMurtry was a popular high school student, active in sports and on the staffs of student publications, but an ambivalence for his West Texas environs was taking hold in the well-read young writer.
		McMurtry's auspicious debut invited comparisons to Thomas Wolfe and James Jones, and became the basis for a widely respected film, Hud (1963), with Paul Newman in the title role.
		McMurtry regards Harmony as sort of a distaff cowboy, part of "a dying breed" of buxom, lacquered showgirls.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/mcmurtry-larry-1936-sjpc-03 (523 words)

	Larry McMurtry : Lonesome Dove : Crazy Horse : Buffalo Girls : Book Review
		McMurtry, also paints a clear and accurate portrait of the large Native American councils of the times, of the Ghost Dance, the battles, the betrayals.
		Larry Mc Murtry invites the reader to camp where we please amid the recountings and recollections of the life of the legend who was Crazy Horse.
		Larry McMurtry was born in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1936.
	mostlyfiction.com /west/mcmurtry.htm (1188 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Book Reviews
		McMurtry in fact tells that after his 1991 heart bypass operation, he felt as though he had become someone separate from his previous life: "I was one person up until the morning of December 2, 1991, at which date I had quadruple-bypass surgery at the Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore.
		McMurtry examines his father's devotion to ranching as an essentially tragic enterprise, since it depended on the wrong animal, the imported cow, instead of the natural grazing creature of the plains, the buffalo.
		Mark Busby is the director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Southwest Texas State University and is the author of Larry McMurtry and the West: An Ambivalent Relationship.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:74397 (1038 words)

	Larry McMurtry
		Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, on June 3, 1936, McMurtry's early novels were all set in the Southwest, on the frontier, and in small towns.
		During all of these once-common activities, McMurtry unfolds hundreds of tales, subplots, and violent and heroic scenes that keep the reader glued to the saddle.
		Larry McMurtry has been writing prequels and sequels to Lonesome Dove--cashing in on its popularity--for years.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-060303-mcmurtry.html (475 words)

	Loop Group by Larry McMurtry: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In spite of the potluck nature of Maggie and Connie's trials, the ultimate pointlessness of their road trip and the haphazard manner in which their adventures are brought to a conclusion -- the language in which all this is told is appealingly confident and unforced.
		McMurtry has an instinct for the sort of seemingly humdrum everyday details that make his characters feel real and rooted.
		A better title for Larry McMurtry's latest novel, Loop Group, would be "Loathsome Dung." I have, in my lifetime, read hundreds of novels, perhaps thousands, and Loop Group is by far the worst.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/mcmurtrylarry/loopgroup (569 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Larry McMurtry - Books: Meet the Writers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Larry McMurtry worked as a cowhand on his father's Texas cattle ranch until he was 22, but never aspired to be a rancher.
		McMurtry's 38th book introduces Marie Antoinette "Nellie" Courtright and her brother, Jackson who -- after their Virginia clan dies off one by one -- arrive in Rita Blanca in 1876, in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle, to reinvent themselves and begin again.
		If you enjoy McMurtry's novels of the West, you may be interested in these guides to the language, history and culture of the cowboy world.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=701973 (274 words)

	Authors on the Web - Larry McMurtry
		McMurtry worked as a both book scout and dealer in San Francisco and Houston, Texas.
		Larry McMurtry's son, James McMurtry, is a songwriter/guitarist who, apparently, landed a record deal when Larry McMurtry handed off his son's demo to John Mellencamp.
		Born on June 3rd, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas, Larry McMurtry graduated from high school in nearby Archer City, which was later immortalized as the backdrop of the movie, The Last Picture Show based on his 1966 novel of the same name.
	www.authorsontheweb.com /features/authormonth/0106mcmurtry/mcmurtry-larry.asp (316 words)

	Amazon.ca: Streets of Laredo: Books: Larry McMurtry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		McMurtry unflinchingly explores the human capacity for evil and heroism in the face of it.
		Throughout the story I grew more and more suspicious that McMurtry took his story in wild directions, either killing or maiming central characters without a second thought, simply to spite Return to Lonesome Dove, the miniseries sequel that was written and produced without his involvement (and aired prior to the release of this "official" sequel).
		McMurtry (these are the only books of his I have read), is far from being a master in the use of language, however.
	www.amazon.ca /Streets-Laredo-Larry-McMurtry/dp/0671537466 (1846 words)

	USATODAY.com - McMurtry sets sights on Buffalo Bill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Larry McMurtry remembers a hot Texas afternoon 61 years ago when his Uncle Roy casually mentioned he had once seen Buffalo Bill Cody.
		McMurtry, who calls himself "a critic of the myth of the cowboy" and is best known for his novels, Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment, was 8 years old.
		McMurtry recalls, "I was more interested in the Lone Ranger than in Buffalo Bill Cody," but when Uncle Roy noticed the book, he reminded Uncle Charlie that they had seen Cody perform in Oklahoma near the end of his life.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2005-06-22-mcmurtry_x.htm (789 words)

	Larry McMurtry Novels
		Incredible beauty and lightning-quick violence are the bookends of his West, but it is the in-between moments of suffering and boredom where McMurtry shines.
		The media dubbed Charley Floyd "Pretty Boy Floyd" because folks said that for a bank robber he was a kindfaced and kindhearted man. McMurtry and Ossana, who have collaborated previously on screenplays, deliver a fictionalized though believable depiction of the charming outlaw.
		McMurtry is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove.
	www.worland.com /mcmurtry.htm (630 words)

	Larry McMurtry - Paradise
		Larry McMurtry is best known for his award-winning fiction including such as
		McMurtry's vivid descriptions of the physical landscape have always been admirable, especially when he writes of the Texas landscape.
		Most of the amusing observations are subtle, though the author does devote a few pages to "the steak incident" where he ate a dinner reserved for another passenger.
	www.thebookhaven.net /Z_Paradise.html (565 words)

	Larry McMurtry book reviews
		Larry McMurtry's vast, wild epic of a cattle drive that is something more is full of action and unforgettable characters.
		Larry McMurtry is on a voyage aboard the freighter Aranui carrying American and European passengers around French Polynesia, specifically the Marquesas Islands.
		In this book, Larry McMurtry (author of such great novels as The Last Picture Show and Lonesome Dove) interweaves tales about his family with stories from his life as a writer and bookseller with thoughts about an essay written by Walter Benjamin abo...
	www.allreaders.com /Topics/Topic_545.asp (446 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Desert Rose : A Novel: Books: Larry McMurtry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself.
		Not a typical McMurtry novel;but then again none of his are.I've had this book for a long time as well as it's sequel "The Late Child"and for a change of pace decided to give it a try.
		McMurtry has put together a great bunch of characters who all belong with one another.Kind of like the cast you find in a novel by Erskine Caldwell,Kinky Friedman,Hunter Thompson or even Steinbeck.These characters come from a different slice of life.
	www.amazon.ca /Desert-Rose-Novel-Larry-McMurtry/dp/0684853841 (888 words)

	Larry McMurtry \| pop : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
		Larry McMurtry pulls his big boat of a Cadillac into the parking lot of the local Dairy Queen -- a guaranteed stop for visitors to the West Texas town of Archer City.
		This is West Texas, after all, where, as McMurtry puts it, ''anybody who is successful gets some envy and some resentment.'' (The fact that his standing breakfast order is taped to the cash register must be considered the height of pretension.) ''It's a little shaky at the moment,'' he says of the staff.
		McMurtry speaks in a soft monotone, which only underscores his more caustic remarks; friends say there was more bite to him before his heart attack in 1991, but he's still cranky enough to keep you on your toes.
	www.ew.com /ew/report/0,6115,535729_7_0_,00.html (703 words)

	Amazon.com: Texasville: Books: Larry McMurtry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		McMurtry, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove, is a writer with a distinctive voice, a profound understanding of Texans and a brilliant gift for capturing the vagrant moods of the heart.
		McMurtry plays up the ironies and absurdities of life in Thalia where, as Duane observes, everyone seems to have gone crazy.
		McMurtry likes to people his novels liberally and personalize each character immediately by (1) giving them an unusual name and (2) making them quirky in some way personality-wise.
	www.amazon.com /Texasville-Larry-McMurtry/dp/0671735179 (2374 words)

	Powell's Books - Sin Killer by
		In Larry McMurtry's Sin Killer, the first novel of a major four-volume work, it is 1830, and the Berrybender family, rich aristocratic English, and fiercely out of place, is on its way up the Missouri River to see the American West as it begins to open up.
		Larry McMurtry has created a wonderfully engaging family confronting every bigger-than-life personality of the frontier as the Berrybenders make their way up the great river, surviving attacks, discomfort, savage weather, and natural disaster.
		Larry McMurtry, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove, is the author of twenty-seven novels, two collections of essays, three memoirs, and more than thirty screenplays, and is the editor of an anthology of modern Western fiction.
	www.powells.com /biblio/1-0743246845-3 (435 words)

	‘Brokeback’ writer says life isn’t for ‘sissies’ - Academy Awards - MSNBC.com
		Writers Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry pose in the press room with the theatrical adapted screenplay award for "Brokeback Mountain" during the 2006 Writers Guild Awards on Feb. 4.
		McMurtry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose books include “Lonesome Dove,” adapted Annie Proulx’s story with Diana Ossana for “Brokeback Mountain.” The film, nominated for eight Academy Awards, has elicited some controversy for its gay cowboy plot — something McMurtry thinks is off-base.
		McMurtry, 69, was nominated for an Oscar in 1972 for co-writing the screenplay (adapted from his novel) of “The Last Picture Show” with Peter Bogdanovich.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/11395788 (445 words)

	Larry McMurtry — www.greenwood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Description: Larry McMurtry's award winning novels have redefined not only the literature of the west, but also the essential myths with which the west is associated.
		This volume is the most comprehensive of the existing studies of McMurtry's writings, covering all of his works up to the most recent.
		A literary heritage chapter helps students understand how McMurtry transforms the traditional components of the western genre into stories that are models of modern life.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GR0300.aspx (353 words)

	Larry McMurtry -- Recent and Upcoming Books
		In Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Larry McMurtry comes the old pardner, and the result is a powerful elegy for the lost spaces in American life.
		Larry McMurtry's "funny and brutal" (New York Times) landmark novel The Last Picture Show introduced the shrinking oil-patch town of Thalia, Texas, and its teenaged residents Duane, Sonny, and Jacy.
		Larry McMurtry returns to the unforgettable Texas town and characters of one of his best-loved books, The Last Picture Show.
	www.non.com /books/McMurtry_Larry_r.html (2795 words)

	AfterElton.com - Interview with Brokeback Mountain Screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
		The epic romance between two humble ranchers at the heart of Brokeback Mountain is striking potent emotional chords with critics.
		She first discovered Brokeback Mountain several years ago, while staying at McMurtry's Texas home.The film is based on a 1997 story by Annie Proulx and was originally published in The New Yorker.
		McMurtry: "It was a great story of the West that hadn't been written.
	www.afterelton.com /movies/2006/1/mcmurtry.html (426 words)

	UNT Libraries: Rare Book & Texana Collections, Larry McMurtry Collection, Finding Aid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		McMurtry's early manuscripts, which convey his development as a writer.
		Note on items 4-7: Before McMurtry had his first novel clearly in mind, he wrote a short story about the funeral of a young boy's grandfather and submitted it to Dr. Martin Schockley for the requirements in some course.
		McMurtry is submitting the funeral section and explaining Southwest Review's prior claim.
	www.library.unt.edu /rarebooks/finding/mcmurtry/default.htm (1130 words)

	James McMurtry on the Web
		Described by Steven King as "the truest, fiercest songwriter of his generation," James McMurtry is the son of acclaimed author Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, Terms of Endearment).
		McMurtry, 44, won album of the year for "Childish Things" and song of the year for "We Can't Make It Here Anymore," a pointed commentary on the economy, war and other issues.
		The Austin, Texas-based singer is the son of "Lonesome Dove" author Larry McMurtry and credits his father with exposing him to country music as a boy.
	www.jamesmcmurtry.com (2935 words)

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