LARRY MCMURTRY

Reader letters published in our June 2022 issue.

They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service.

A recent tribute in Archer City gave Texans an overdue opportunity to pay their respects to their state’s greatest writer.

The event culminates with a screening of 'The Last Picture Show,' based on Larry McMurtry's story and released 50 years ago this month.

There may be no more powerful film about growing up with nowhere to go.

Texas suppressed Gertrude Beasley's 1925 memoir My First Thirty Years. Larry McMurtry called it the best book of its era.

Reader letters published in our July 2021 issue.

How many people can say they’ve both read Larry McMurtry’s book and seen Bill Wittliff’s miniseries in the span of two weeks?

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The life and legacy of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry From brilliant westerns like "Lonesome Dove" to contemporary dramas like "Terms of Endearment," Larry McMurtry was a best-selling author who influenced television and film. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author died on Thursday of heart failure, according to a family statement. "CBS This Morning: Saturday" co-host Jeff Glor takes a look back on his life and legacy.

From 2006: Larry McMurtry on the essence of the American West Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMutry, whose dozens of novels told stories of America's West (Old and New), died on March 25, 2021 at the age of 84. In this "Sunday Morning" report which originally aired on February 19, 2006, correspondent Rita Braver talked with McMurtry about his most recent project: the western "Brokeback Mountain," which broke conventions by telling the story of two cowboys in love. [McMurtry and his co-screenwriter Diana Ossana would win the Academy Award for the film.]

Notable Deaths in 2021Diana Walker/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images A look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity. But George Segal (February 13, 1934-March 23, 2021) earned his Oscar nomination for Mike Nichols' bitter drama, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Lawrence Ferlinghetti Janet Fries/Getty Images Writer, activist, publisher and bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti (March 24, 1919-February 22, 2021) was a San Francisco institution. In 1992 the curious King told "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace that his only worry was dying. Her most notable role was in the sitcom "That '70s Show" as Laura Prepon's hippie mother, Midge, who embraced the women's liberation movement.

FILE - In this April 30, 2014, file photo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry poses at his book store in Archer City, Texas. McMurtry died Thursday night of heart failure, according to a family statement issued through a publicist on Friday. He and director Peter Bogdanovich were nominated for an Academy Award for their script for the movie, filmed in Archer City, located about 140 miles (225 kilometers) northwest of Dallas. AdIn the mid-1980s, lured by cheap real estate, he opened his Booked Up store in Archer City. Eventually, the store in Archer City was the only one remaining.