Larry McMurtry used scenes of rural Texas as the location for many of his works; but he demonstrated a keen ability to transcend the limitations that typically confront regional writers, which enabled ...

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If James McMurtry doesn’t make it to Pittsburgh for his show next week, he already has a sneaking suspicion where he’ll be. “Hopefully they’ll let us back in from Canada the night before because we ...

Lee Zimmerman Correspondent for The Daily Times Sep 10, 2025 Sep 10, 2025 The son of the legendary western novelist Larry McMurtry, James McMurtry inherited his father’s gift of narrative and nuance.

A literary center in Archer City, a tiny ranching town in Texas, keeps alive the legacy of famed Western author Larry McMurtry. Larry McMurtry was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Lonesome Dove." ...

Larry McMurtry was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Lonesome Dove." He won an Oscar for co-writing the screenplay for "Brokeback Mountain," and he founded a bookstore in his hometown, Archer City ...

ARCHER CITY, Texas — The celebrated Western writer, Larry McMurtry, aspired to turn this one-stoplight hometown into one of America's great book centers. For a time, he succeeded. You could visit one ...

Photo by John Burnett - ARCHER CITY, Texas — The celebrated Western writer, Larry McMurtry, aspired to turn this one-stoplight hometown into one of America's great book centers. For a time, he ...