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Larry McMurtry

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Larry McMurtry (1936–2021) was a prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, essayist, and screenwriter renowned for chronicling the American West and modern Texas.  He was the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lived in Archer City, Texas.

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Thalia, Texas


A Western series (1961 - 2009)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Funny-sad small-town family drama with midlife reckonings
  • Late-life reinventions after loss in small-town Texas
  • Messy dialogue-driven relationships with awkward age-gap romance

Houston


A Literary Fiction series (1970 - 1992)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • 1970s Los Angeles showbiz satire with sharp backstage scandal
  • Bittersweet strivers chasing art, love, and second chances
  • Messy family reunions with unforgettable, offbeat characters

Desert Rose


A Western series (1983 - 1995)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Las Vegas women behind the glitter
  • Bittersweet mother-daughter bonds
  • Hope and heartbreak in desert city settings

Lonesome Dove


A Western series (1985 - 1997)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Texas Rangers against brutal frontier odds
  • Hard-bitten loyalties tested by frontier duty
  • Gritty Western lives shaped by love and loss

Berrybender Narratives


A Western series (2002 - 2004)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Eccentric English aristocrats hopelessly outmatched by the 1830s American West
  • Fierce frontier heroines outplaying dangerous men
  • Survival-driven family drama under brutal hardship

Standalone Fiction

Cadillac Jack

Anything for Billy

Buffalo Girls

Pretty Boy Floyd

Zeke and Ned

Boone's Lick

Still Wild

Still Wild

Short story collection

Loop Group

Telegraph Days

The Last Kind Words Saloon

Standalone Non-fiction

In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas

Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood

Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond

Roads: Driving America's Great Highways

Sacagawea's Nickname

Paradise

Paradise

Novella

The Colonel and Little Missie

Oh What a Slaughter

Books: A Memoir

Literary Life: A Second Memoir

Hollywood: A Third Memoir

Custer

Custer

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