- Born
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- Birth nameLarry Jeff McMurtry
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Larry McMurtry was born on June 3, 1936 in Archer City, Texas, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Brokeback Mountain (2005), The Last Picture Show (1971) and Streets of Laredo (1995). He was married to Faye Kesey and Josephine Ballard. He died on March 25, 2021 in Archer City, Texas, USA.
- SpousesFaye Kesey(April 29, 2011 - March 25, 2021) (his death)Josephine Ballard(July 15, 1959 - 1966) (divorced, 1 child)
- Owns an antiquarian bookstore called Booked Up in his hometown of Archer City, Texas, consisting of four buildings full of books (upwards of 300,000 volumes of used and rare books in the four buildings combined).
- Won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel "Lonesome Dove".
- Several McMurtry imposters surfaced after the success of Lonesome Dove (1989), due to the fact that McMurtry is rather reclusive and likes to remain unknown.
- Owned a Washington, DC bookstore for 25 years.
- Lived for much of his life in his hometown, Archer City, Texas, two hours northwest of Dallas. He had the same postal box for nearly 70 years.
- My typewriter is a Hermes 3000, surely one of the noblest instruments of European genius. And, ladies and gentlemen, can you believe it? It's kept me for 30 years out of the dry embrace of the computer.
- Movies have largely lost interest in character. It is not without significance that two of the most publicized characters in the cinema have been a shark and a mechanical ape.
- The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. [My] bookshops are a form of ranching. Instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
- Hud (1963) - $10,000
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