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30 de may. de 2024 · Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936, Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S.—died March 25, 2021, Tucson, Arizona) was an award-winning American writer noted for his novels set on the frontier, in contemporary small towns, and in increasingly urbanized and industrial areas of Texas.
29 de may. de 2024 · McMurtry, who died in 2021, describes this particular kind of solitude in the book’s first sentences: “Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in the town.
10 de jun. de 2024 · Larry McMurtry. June 3, 1936–March 25, 2021. Author Larry McMurtry’s unsentimental writing subverted the mythology of the American West. Born in 1936, McMurtry grew up listening to storytellers on the porch of his family's ranch house in Archer City, Texas.
Hace 6 días · Wellington native Jan Glenn auditioned for a role in Larry McMurtry’s “Terms of Endearment,” shot in the affluent River Oaks community of central Houston. Larry McMurtry paused for a moment from his extensive writing career.
Hace 1 día · I just finished reading Larry McMurtry’s BUFFALO GIRLS. Light entertainment, I thought, until an unexpected twist at the end gave it greater depth. ... No Ears, who got his name when at age ten his people were attacked by French trappers who killed everyone except him and cut off all their ears.
Hace 4 días · He completed his M.A. and married Tanya Amyx in 1957. In 1958, he attended Stanford University's creative writing program as a Wallace Stegner Fellow, studying under Stegner in a seminar that included Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, Ernest Gaines, Tillie Olsen, and Ken Kesey.
11 de jun. de 2024 · Larry McMurtry — ‘It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus Mc...
