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Larry McMurtry


Born
in Wichita Falls, Texas, The United States
June 03, 1936

Died
March 25, 2021

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Larry Jeff McMurtry was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. His novels included Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted into films. Films adapted from McMurtry's works earned 34 Oscar nominations (13 wins). He was also a prominent book collector and bookseller.
His 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries that earned 18 Emmy Award nominations (seven wins). The subsequent three novels in his Lonesome Dove series were adapted as three more miniseries, earning eight more Emmy nominations. McMurtry and co-writer Diana Ossana adapted the scre
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Average rating: 4.3 · 512,728 ratings · 42,353 reviews · 167 distinct worksSimilar authors
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dov...

4.60 avg rating — 276,247 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions
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Streets of Laredo (Lonesome...

4.14 avg rating — 30,214 ratings — published 1993 — 20 editions
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Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome D...

4.08 avg rating — 28,441 ratings — published 1995 — 71 editions
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Terms of Endearment

4.12 avg rating — 27,241 ratings — published 1975 — 84 editions
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Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dov...

4.17 avg rating — 23,722 ratings — published 1997 — 76 editions
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The Last Picture Show

4.01 avg rating — 22,460 ratings — published 1966 — 6 editions
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Horseman, Pass By

3.94 avg rating — 5,841 ratings — published 1961 — 61 editions
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Sin Killer (The Berrybender...

3.67 avg rating — 6,118 ratings — published 2002 — 34 editions
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Texasville

3.75 avg rating — 5,311 ratings — published 1987 — 48 editions
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All My Friends Are Going to...

3.83 avg rating — 5,065 ratings — published 1972 — 38 editions
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More books by Larry McMurtry…
Lonesome Dove Streets of Laredo Dead Man's Walk Comanche Moon
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4.49 avg rating — 359,042 ratings

Moving On All My Friends Are Going to... Terms of Endearment Somebody's Darling Some Can Whistle The Evening Star
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4.00 avg rating — 39,612 ratings

The Last Picture Show Texasville Duane's Depressed When the Light Goes Rhino Ranch
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3.91 avg rating — 34,416 ratings

Horseman, Pass By Leaving Cheyenne The Last Picture Show Thalia: A Texas Trilogy
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4.01 avg rating — 33,450 ratings

Sin Killer The Wandering Hill By Sorrow's River Folly and Glory
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3.84 avg rating — 15,797 ratings

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“If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.”
Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“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 McCrae”
Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.”
Larry McMurtry

Polls

Long Reads Classics
2nd Quarter 2026: April - June 2026

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, 1989, 976 pages
(last read 2019)
 
  31 votes, 20.5%

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, 1985, 960 pages (last read 2012)
 
  29 votes, 19.2%

The Arabian Nights by Anonymous, 800, 1049 pages
(last read 2018)
 
  26 votes, 17.2%

 
  20 votes, 13.2%

 
  17 votes, 11.3%

Adam Bede by George Eliot, 1859, 624 pages
 
  16 votes, 10.6%

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay, 1990, 675 pages
 
  12 votes, 7.9%

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