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Larry McMurtry

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Larry McMurty is the son and grandson of cattlemen, and he spent most of his growing years in the ranching country of north-central Texas. He is a graduate of North Texas State in Denton and Rice University in Houston. With publication of his first novel, Horseman, Pass By, he won overwhelming acclaim as one of the most brilliant of America's contemporary novelists. In 1986 he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with Lonesome Drove. Several of his novels have been made into films.

Books by Larry McMurtry

The Last Picture Show

Larry McMurtry's hilarious and touching novel, in Penguin Modern Classics for the very first time

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