Larry McMurtry (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Biography

Larry Jeff McMurtry was born on June 3, 1936, at Wichita Falls, Texas, twenty miles from his parents’ home in Archer City, Texas (the Thalia of his books). McMurtry's grandparents had moved into Archer County in the 1880's and established their ranch along a cattle trail in north central Texas. The nine McMurtry boys (Larry's uncles and father, William Jefferson McMurtry) moved westward to work on the huge ranches in the Texas panhandle.

At family reunions, McMurtry heard his elders talk about the golden age of their youth and about such great ranchers...

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