Larry McMurtry
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Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and, most recently, Folly and Glory. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, and Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West (published by New York Review Books). He lives in Archer City, Texas.
From the Review
March 6, 2008: He Went Against the Peace Pipe
Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer by Michael A. Elliott
December 6, 2007: Keaton's Own Lens (letter)
November 8, 2007: Diane Keaton on Photography
Still Life edited by Diane Keaton and Marvin Heiferman
Mr. Salesman edited by Diane Keaton and Marvin Heiferman
Clown Paintings edited and with an introduction by Diane Keaton
Local News by Diane Keaton and Marvin Heiferman, edited by Carole Kismaric
October 25, 2007: Our Favorite Bandit
Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride by Michael Wallis
November 30, 2006: The Lives of Gore
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964 to 2006 by Gore Vidal
September 21, 2006: Texas: The Death of the Natives
The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875 by Gary Clayton Anderson
August 10, 2006: Barbara Epstein (1928–2006)
March 23, 2006: 'Angel in America' (letter)
November 17, 2005: Angel in America
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn M. Brodie
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
Reconsidering No Man Knows My History: Fawn M. Brodie and Joseph Smith in Retrospect edited by Newell G. Bringhurst
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism by Richard L. Bushman
July 14, 2005: On Rereading
April 28, 2005: The Death of Wild Bill Hickok (letter)
April 7, 2005: The Grand Acquisitors
The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood by Edward Jay Epstein
March 24, 2005: Back to the O.K. Corral
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend by Casey Tefertiller
Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp by Steven Lubet
July 15, 2004: The Unknown West
One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark by Colin G. Calloway
Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier by Shirley Christian
April 29, 2004: The Two Lives of General Grant
Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America by Mark Perry
April 8, 2004: The Lives and Loves of Samuel Clemens
The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years by Karen Lystra
November 20, 2003: Lady Sings the Blues
America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins
November 6, 2003: Leaving the Lake
Love Me by Garrison Keillor
October 23, 2003: Big Daddy
Bill Clinton, an American Journey: Great Expectations by Nigel Hamilton
October 9, 2003: Mountain Man
Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire by Tom Chaffin
September 25, 2003: Appointment with O'Hara
The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O'Hara by Geoffrey Wolff
July 3, 2003: The Don of Dons
When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence Connie Bruck
May 29, 2003: The Perfect Secretary
Lloyd George: War Leader, 1916–1918 by John Grigg
The Years That Are Past by Frances Lloyd George
The Decline and Fall of Lloyd George by Max Aitkens Beaverbrook
Frances, Countess Lloyd George: More than a Mistress by Ruth Longford
Stranger on the Square by Arthur and Cynthia Koestler
Lloyd George: A Diary by Frances Stevenson, edited by A.J.P. Taylor
March 13, 2003: Putting the Show Together
A Life of Privilege, Mostly by Gardner Botsford
December 5, 2002: On the Road
November 21, 2002: Out of the Mists
Ancestral Voices by James Lees-Milne
Prophesying Peace by James Lees-Milne
Caves of Ice: Diaries, 1946 & '47 by James Lees-Milne
Ancient as the Hills: Diaries, 1973–1974 by James Lees-Milne
Through Wood and Dale: Diaries, 1975–1978 by James Lees-Milne
A Mingled Measure: Diaries, 1953–1972 by James Lees-Milne
Midway on the Waves by James Lees-Milne
Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries, 1979–1981 by James Lees-Milne
Holy Dread: Diaries, 1982–1984 by James Lees-Milne
November 7, 2002: Almost Forgotten Women
June 27, 2002: On the Big Two-Hearted River
The Cadence of Grass by Thomas McGuane
December 20, 2001: Mad About the Book
Patience and Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture by Nicholas A. Basbanes
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes
November 15, 2001: Life on the Missouri
September 20, 2001: Sacagawea's Nickname
August 9, 2001: Zuni Tunes
Zuni and the American Imagination Eliza McFeely
April 12, 2001: Grand Canyon Sweet
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell Donald Worster
March 29, 2001: Corrections (letter)
March 8, 2001: Separate and Unequal
One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race by Scott L. Malcomson
February 8, 2001: The First American Epic
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition edited by Gary E. Moulton
December 21, 2000: Hometown America's Black Book
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America by James Allen, by Hilton Als, by John Lewis, by Leon F. Litwack
November 2, 2000: Pulpmaster
Zane Grey: Romancing the West by Stephen J. May
Maverick Heart: The Further Adventures of Zane Grey by Stephen J. May
August 10, 2000: Inventing the West
A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Frémont, and the Claiming of the American West by David Roberts
The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill by Don Russell
Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History by Joy S. Kasson
The Business of Being Buffalo Bill: Selected Letters of William F. Cody, 1879-1917 by Sarah J. Blackstone
The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West by Michael Wallis
The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley by Glenda Riley
Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill's Wild West by Isabelle S. Sayers
Will Rogers by Ben Yagoda
May 25, 2000: Cookie Pioneers
Something in the Soil by Patricia Nelson Limerick
Texas History Movies text by John Rosenfield Jr., illustrations by Jack Patton
February 10, 2000: Lighting Out for the Territory
On the Rez by Ian Frazier
January 20, 2000: Now Voyager
Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings by Jonathan Raban
November 4, 1999: Death of the Cowboy
August 12, 1999: Custer Fixation? (letter)
June 24, 1999: What Would Dr. Johnson Think? (letter)
April 22, 1999: Chopping Down the Sacred Tree
The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America by James Wilson
October 22, 1998: The West Without Chili
The New Encyclopedia of the American West by Howard R. Lamar
June 11, 1998: The Return of Janet Lewis
The Dear Past (1994) by Janet Lewis
The Wife of Martin Guerre (1941) by Janet Lewis
Goodbye, Son (1943) by Janet Lewis
The Invasion (1932) by Janet Lewis
The Trial of Soren Qvist (1947) by Janet Lewis
The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron (1959) by Janet Lewis
October 23, 1997: Broken Promises
The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic by Angie Debo
And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes by Angie Debo
The Road to Disappearance: A History of the Creek Indians by Angie Debo
Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place by Angie Debo
A History of the Indians of the United States by Angie Debo
February 11, 1993: An Urgent Appeal from Pen American Center (letter)
November 8, 1990: Writers in Prison (letter)
April 12, 1990: Help Salman Rushdie! (letter)
August 17, 1989: Arrested in China (letter)
From New York Review Books
 | Monsieur Monde Vanishes Unsurpassed as an evocation of milieu, whether of staid bourgeois propriety or waterfront seediness, Monsieur Monde Vanishes is another triumph by the twentieth century's greatest popular novelist. |
 | Sacagawea's Nickname (paperback) In this acclaimed collection, Larry McMurtry profiles explorers and martyrs, hucksters and scholars—figures in the West's enduring yet ever-shifting mixture of myth and reality. |
 | Sacagawea's Nickname Once again Larry McMurtry casts a keen and elegaic eye not only on the often harsh truths of the West, but also on the power of western illusions. |
Books by Larry McMurtry
The Wandering Hill (2003)
Missouri River (2003)
Winning the Wild West: The Epic Saga of the American Frontier, 1800-1899 (2002)
Sin Killer (2002)
Cadillac Jack (2002)
Horseman, Pass By (2002)
Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West (2001)
Crazy Horse: A Penguin Life (1998)
Lonesome Dove (1986)