Larry McMurtry (Identities and Issues in Literature)

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Larry McMurtry has said that he grew up in a “bookless town” (Archer City, Texas) and compared his first stepping into a university library at age eighteen to the discovery of a literary landscape similar to the prairies on which his forebears settled. First at Rice University and then at the University of North Texas, he began serious reading and writing. His first novel, Horseman, Pass By, written in 1958, shortly after he was graduated from the University of North Texas, was published in 1961 after much polishing and revising. It tells the story of...

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