Larry McMurtry (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Larry Jeff McMurtry’s early novels of Texas in transition placed him, as a very young man, among the most important writers of his native state. As he matured and broadened his scope, McMurtry gained wide recognition as a skilled writer, one whose particular and natural interest in the West, its past and its present, provided him a special position among regional novelists. However, since the publication of Lonesome Dove, which landed on the best-seller lists and won him the Pulitzer Prize (1986), McMurtry has been considered one of the giants of American literature.

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