Larry McMurtry
American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Larry Jeff McMurtry was a prolific American novelist, essayist, prominent book collector, bookseller and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. His novels included Horseman, Pass By , The Last Picture Show , and Terms of Endearment , which were adapted into films. Films adapted from McMurtry's works earned 34 Oscar nominations .
Larry McMurtry's Published Works
Published Works
- The Last Picture Show (1966) (22)
- Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay (1997) (20)
- Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond (1999) (19)
- Horseman, Pass By (1961) (10)
- In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas (1971) (9)
- Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood (1987) (8)
- Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West (2003) (7)
- All my friends are going to be strangers (2018) (6)
- Books: A Memoir (2008) (6)
- Silent Screens: The Decline and Transformation of the American Movie Theater (2000) (4)
- Terms of Endearment (1975) (4)
- The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America (2005) (3)
- Streets of Laredo (1993) (2)
- The Grand Acquisitors (2005) (2)
- From Some Can Whistle (2009) (1)
- Angel in America (2005) (1)
- Moving On (1970) (1)
- The Lives and Loves of Samuel Clemens (2004) (1)
- Excerpt from Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen (2011) (1)
- His True Love Is Politics (2004) (1)
- Anything for Billy (1988) (1)
- Somebody's Darling (1978) (1)
- Lonesome Dove : A Novel (1985) (1)
- Ben Jonson's feud with the poetasters, 1599-1601 (1960) (1)
- Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present (2000) (0)
- Cadillac Jack: A Novel (1982) (0)
- 1986 AWARD: ABOUT THE CATTLE DRIVE OPERATIONS FROM TEXAS TO MONTANA (1996) (0)
- AIDS clinic develops to meet needs of Dallas victims. (1988) (0)
- The Evening Star: A Novel (1992) (0)
- The Late Child (1995) (0)
- In a narrow grave : essays on Texas : with a new preface (1989) (0)
- Buffalo Girls: A Novel (1990) (0)
- Back to the O.K. Corral (2005) (0)
- Canyon Visions: Photographs and Pastels of the Texas Plains (1989) (0)
- Streets of Laredo : a novel (1993) (0)
- Texasville: A Novel (1987) (0)
- The Two Lives of General Grant (2004) (0)
- Somebody's Darling: A Novel (2018) (0)
- The Desert Rose: A Novel (1983) (0)
- Dead man's walk : a novel (1995) (0)
- Talking Texas (2001) (0)
- Las dos vidas del general Grant: sobre Grant and Twain: the Story of a Friendship that Changed America (2004) (0)
- Moving on : a novel (1987) (0)
- A Response to the Interview (2003) (0)
- Discourses of Frontier Violence and theTrauma of National Emergence in (2009) (0)
- Homer et al.: 1979 March 4-10 (1997) (0)
- Texas: The Death of the Natives (2006) (0)
- Iannone, Carol: Letters Opposing Nomination of (1991): Correspondence 52 (1991) (0)
- Pretty Boy Floyd : a novel (1994) (0)
- Monsieur Monde Vanishes (1967) (0)
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