Home Hollywood Bollywood UK ... Z Movies TV Video McMurtry, Larry biography of McMurtry, Larr Larry Jeff McMurtry
3 June 1936, Wichita Falls, Texas, USA
'Josephine Ballard' (15 July 1959 - 1966) (divorced); 1 child
Owned a Washington, DC bookstore for 25 years.
Father of actor and singer/songwriter 'James McMurtry' (qv), also a singer/songwriter, with six CDs.
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".
Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Volume 170, pages 237-252. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2008.
Fiction: "Texasville", "Playboy" (USA), May 1987, p.82-84+94-96+154-156.
(2001) Novel: "Flim Flam"
(2001) Non-Fiction Essays: "Film Flam" Book: "Essays on Hollywood" Novel: "All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers" Novel: "Anything for Billy Flim Flam" Novel: "Cadillac Jack" Novel: "Desert Rose" Novel: "In a Narrow Grave" Novel: "Moving On" Novel: "Pretty Boy Floyd" (with Diana Ossana) Novel: "Some Can Whistle" Novel: "Somebody's Darling" Novel: "The Late Child" Novel: "Zeke and Ned" (with Diana Ossana) Novel: "Sin Killer." | |
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