Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is an American novelist, essayist and screenwriter.

Books, novels and films

• 1961 - Horseman, Pass By - adapted for film as Hud
• 1963 - Leaving Cheyenne - adapted for film as Lovin' Molly
• 1966 - The Last Picture Show - adapted into a film of the same name
• 1968 - In A Narrow Grave
• 1970 - Moving On
• 1972 - All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers
• 1974 - It's Always We Rambled (essay)
• 1975 - Terms Of Endearment - adapted into a film of the same name
• 1978 - Somebody's Darling
• 1982 - Cadillac Jacktoka toka
• 1983 - Desert Rose
• 1985 - Lonesome Dove, 1986 Pulitzer Prize winner, and first of what became a series
• 1987 - Texasville - adapted into a film of the same name - A continuation of the story begun in The Last Picture Show
• 1987 - Film Flam
• 1988 - Anything For Billy
• 1988 - The Murder of Mary Phagan - TV story
• 1989 - Some Can Whistle
• 1990 - Buffalo Girls - adapted into a TV movie
• 1990 - Montana - TV movie
• 1992 - The Evening Star - adapted for film as The Evening Star - A continuation of the story begun in Terms of Endearment
• 1992 - Memphis - TV movie
• 1992 - Falling from Grace - TV movie
• 1993 - Streets of Laredo, another in the Lonesome Dove series
• 1994 - Pretty Boy Floyd (with Diana Ossana)
• 1995 - Dead Man's Walk, another in the Lonesome Dove series
• 1995 - The Late Child
• 1997 - Comanche Moon, the last as of 2004 of the Lonesome Dove series
• 1997 - Zeke and Ned
• 1999 - Crazy Horse
• 1999 - Duane's Depressed - A continuation of The Last Picture Show and Texasville story
• 1999 - Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen
• 2000 - Roads: Driving America's Great Highways
• 2001 - Sacagawea's Nickname (essays on the American West)
• 2002 - Sin Killer - The Berrybender Narratives, Book 1
• 2002 - Johnson County War - TV mini-series
• 2003 - The Wandering Hill - The Berrybender Narratives, Book 2
• 2003 - By Sorrow's River - The Berrybender Narratives, Book 3
• 2004 - Folly and Glory: A Novel - The Berrybender Narratives, Book 4
• 2005 - Brokeback Mountain - screenplay (adapted from the short story by E. Annie Proulx)

McMurtry was also responsible for two Canadian television series in the 1990s, and . Rumors have circulated for years that two novels by Ophelia Ray were ghost-written by McMurtry, The Daughter of Tejas in 1965 and in 1968.

Related Topics:
The Daughter of Tejas - 1968

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McMurtry most likely worked as an uncredited script doctor for several Hollywood films. Certainly, the movie Bandolero was at least partly written by McMurtry, as several of the characters in Bandolero have the same names and plot situations as do characters in McMurtry's novel Lonesome Dove. Also, the movie Cheyenne Social Club has similar characters and plot situations to Lonesome Dove.

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