Larry McMurtry

12 Series

Larry McMurtry was an American author and screenwriter renowned for his Western novels and non-fiction works. His most notable novels include "Terms of Endearment" and "Lonesome Dove," the latter earning a Pulitzer Prize. McMurtry co-wrote the screenplay for "Brokeback Mountain," and both "Brokeback Mountain" and "Terms of Endearment" received Academy Awards.

Larry McMurtry's "Horseman, Pass By," also known as "Hud," explores the tensions within a Texas ranching family. In collaboration with Diana Ossana, McMurtry penned "Pretty Boy Floyd" and "Zeke and Ned," delving into historical and biographical narratives. Their joint work continued with "Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay," co-authored with Annie Proulx, which examines a poignant love story set against the backdrop of the American West.

Thalia, Texas

Horseman, Pass By / Hud

(1961)

Leaving Cheyenne

(1962)

Thalia

(2017)

Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show

(1966)

Texasville

(1987)

Duane's Depressed

(1999)

When the Light Goes

(2007)

Rhino Ranch

(2009)

Houston

Moving On

(1970)

All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers

(1972)

Terms of Endearment

(1975)

Somebody's Darling

(1978)

Some Can Whistle

(1989)

The Evening Star

(1992)

Desert Rose

The Desert Rose

(1983)

The Late Child

(1995)

Lonesome Dove

(1985)

Streets of Laredo

(1993)

Dead Man's Walk

(1995)

Comanche Moon

(1997)

Chronological Order of Lonesome Dove

Dead Man's Walk

(1995)

Comanche Moon

(1997)

Lonesome Dove

(1985)

Streets of Laredo

(1993)

Berrybender Narratives

Sin Killer

(2002)

The Wandering Hill

(2003)

By Sorrow's River

(2003)

Folly and Glory

(2004)

Standalone Novels

Cadillac Jack

(1982)

Anything for Billy

(1988)

Buffalo Girls

(1990)

Pretty Boy Floyd

(1994)(With: Diana Ossana)

Zeke and Ned

(1997)(With: Diana Ossana)

Boone's Lick

(2000)

Loop Group

(2004)

Telegraph Days

(2006)

The Last Kind Words Saloon

(2014)

Short Story Collections

Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay

(2005)(With: Annie Proulx,Diana Ossana)

Non-Fiction

In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas

(1968)

Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood

(1987)

Crazy Horse

(1999)

Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen

(1999)

Roads: A Millennial Journey Along America's Great Interstate Highways

(2000)

Paradise

(2001)

Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West

(2001)

Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West, 1846-1890

(2005)

The Colonel and Little Missie

(2006)

Books: A Memoir

(2008)

Literary Life: A Second Memoir

(2009)

Hollywood: A Third Memoir

(2010)

Custer

(2012)

Missouri River

(2015)

Penguin Lives

Abraham Lincoln

(1960)(By: Thomas Keneally)

Mao Zedong: A Life

(1999)(By: Jonathan D. Spence)

Mozart: A Life

(1999)(By: Peter Gay)

Marcel Proust

(1999)(By: Edmund White)

Crazy Horse

(1999)

Saint Augustine

(1999)(By: Garry Wills)

James Joyce

(1999)(By: Edna O'Brien)

Rosa Parks

(2000)(By: Douglas Brinkley)

Virginia Woolf

(2000)(By: Nigel Nicolson)

Woodrow Wilson

(2000)(By: Louis Auchincloss)

Herman Melville

(2000)(By: Elizabeth Hardwick)

Leonardo da Vinci: A Life

(2000)(By: Sherwin B. Nuland)

Dante

(2001)(By: R.W.B. Lewis)

Jane Austen: A Life

(2001)(By: Carol Shields)

Buddha

(2001)(By: Karen Armstrong)

Simone Weil

(2001)(By: Francine du Plessix Gray)

Andy Warhol: A Biography

(2001)(By: Wayne Koestenbaum)

Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life

(2001)(By: Marshall Frady)

Joseph Smith

(2002)(By: Robert V. Remini)

Winston Churchill: A Life

(2002)(By: John Keegan)

Pope John XXIII

(2002)(By: Thomas Cahill)

Charles Dickens

(2002)(By: Jane Smiley)

Elvis Presley

(2002)(By: Bobbie Ann Mason)

Saint Therese of Lisieux

(2003)(By: Kathryn Harrison)

Robert E. Lee

(2003)(By: Roy Blount Jr.)

Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life

(2004)(By: Ada Louise Huxtable)

George Herbert Walker Bush

(2004)(By: Tom Wicker)

Napoleon

(2006)(By: Paul Johnson)

Julia Child

(2007)(By: Laura Shapiro)

Joan of Arc

(2008)(By: Mary Gordon)

Martin Luther

(2008)(By: Martin E. Marty)

Branch Rickey: A Life

(2011)(By: Jimmy Breslin)

Anthologies

Southwest Stories

(1993)

Still Wild

(2000)

Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression

(2001)

Lone Star Literature

(2003)

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