Longtime journalist David Streitfeld wrote the biography “Western Star” and says McMurtry identified strongly as a Texan but ...

Set in the mid-to-late 1870s American West, Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove is described as “the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness.” The story brings readers to the tiny ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Larry McMurtry in his Archer City, Texas, bookstore in 2014. (LM Otero / Associated Press) After Augustus McCrae came out on the ...

The lawmaker from Frisco has rallied right-wingers by promising to remove “sexually explicit” books from shelves. But he may lose them by targeting a beloved Texan classic. State representative Jared ...

Taylor Sheridan certainly remembers his. The Fort Worth-bred screenwriter, producer and director, who is perhaps best known as the co-creator of Yellowstone, was 19 when he discovered McMurtry's opus ...

Teton Ridge Entertainment has acquired the rights to “Lonesome Dove,” Larry McMurtry‘s sprawling series of novels about the American West. The deal was made between the entertainment company and the ...

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Larry McMurtry, the Texas novelist known for American West epics like Lonesome Dove and the Oscar-winning screenplay for Brokeback Mountain, has died. McMurtry’s death on Thursday was first reported ...