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Larry McMurtry

Biography

Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including His Lonesome Dove winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and other magazines, and his non-fiction works include In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas (1989), Crazy Horse (1999), and Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen (1999). He lives in Archer City, Texas.

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Larry McMurtry understands Texas like Cormac McCarthy understands the Southwest and Mexico. Even if you never read his works set in the present, you have to read McMurtry's take on unsettled Texas. Add to that, Lonesome Dove is a classic without peer.

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