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    Larry McMurtry (1936-2021)

    One of the finest American authors of the 20th Century has died. If you never read another Western, read 'Lonesome Dove'. Larry McMurtry, a prolific, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Oscar-winning screenwriter, has died at age 84. He was beloved for riveting and yet unsentimental depictions of the American West in books such as Lonesome Dove as well as for tales of family drama including Terms of Endearment.In a statement, his representative Amanda Lundberg said McMurtry "passed away last night, on March 25 of heart failure at 84 years old surrounded by his loved ones who he lived with including long time writing partner Diana Ossana, his wife Norma Faye and their three dogs."In all, McMurtry wrote more than 30 novels as well as over a dozen nonfiction works that spanned memoir, history and essays. He wrote over 20 screenplays and television scripts as well.McMurtry served as the president of PEN America's Board of Trustees for two years, beginning in 1989. That year, he testified before Congress to oppose provisions of federal immigration laws that had allowed the U.S. to exclude writers and others on ideological grounds; some of those provisions were repealed. In addition, he defended fellow author Salman Rushdie after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death threat against Rushdie after the publication of The Satanic Verses.....Filmmakers were drawn to McMurtry's work; his books Horseman, Pass By (adapted as Hud), The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment were all made into films. Lonesome Dove, his 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, became a successful TV miniseries in 1989, starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.Born in 1936 on a Texas ranch, McMurtry came to his love of the West through his family. His grandfather broke horses, and his father raised cattle."The West is mostly a very beautiful place," he told NPR's All Things Considered in 2014. "There are all those lovely spaces. There are all those running horses. It's a poetic imagery and it's been there for a long time."But he wanted to scour that landscape of sentimental nostalgia for cowboys, he added. "To me it was hollow and I think it was hollow for my father, although he might not have ever brought that to his conscious mind. He totally loved cowboys and so did most of the cowboys we worked with and that got him through his life. But he knew perfectly well, so did we, that it wouldn't last another generation, it just was not going to last."https://www.npr.org/2021/03/26/98159...died-at-age-84
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    RIP.

    I particularly liked his Thalia Series, from Last Picture Show through Duane's Depressed to Rhino Ranch, five novels altogether.
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    McMurtry wrote a sequel to 'Lonesome Dove' called 'Streets of Laredo', and two prequels, telling the story of Call and Gus's early days in Rangering - 'Dead Man's Walk' and 'Comanche Moon'. He was unflinching in his description of life on the frontier in those early days, and particularly on the subject of the Indian tribes' imaginative torture techniques.
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