AKA Larry Jeff McMurtry

Born: 3-Jun-1936
Birthplace: Wichita Falls, TX

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Lonesome Dove

Father: William Jefferson McMurtry (rancher)
Mother: Hazel Ruth McIver
Wife: Josephine Ballard (m. 1959, div. 1966, one son)
Son: James McMurtry

    High School: Archer City High School, Archer City, TX
    University: BA, North Texas State College
    University: MA, Rice University (1960)

    Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1986 for Lonesome Dove
    Oscar for Best Screenplay (another medium) 2006 for Brokeback Mountain
    Risk Factors: Depression

Author of books:
Horseman, Pass By (1961, novel, became the 1963 film Hud)
Leaving Cheyenne (1963, novel, became the film Lovin' Molly)
The Last Picture Show (1966, novel, became a film in 1971)
All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers (1972, novel)
Terms of Endearment (1975, novel, became a film in 1983)
Cadillac Jack (1982, novel)
The Desert Rose (1983, novel)
Lonesome Dove (1985, novel, Pulitzer Prize winner)
Buffalo Girls (1990, novel)
The Evening Star (1992, novel)
Streets of Laredo (1993, novel)
Dead Man's Walk (1995, novel)
Comanche Moon (1997, novel)
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen (1999, novel)
Roads: Driving America's Great Highways (2000, nonfiction)

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