Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry (1936–2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter from Texas, known for fiction set in the American West and contemporary Texas. His novel Lonesome Dove (1985) won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Several of his novels, including Horseman, Pass By, The Last Picture Show, and Terms of Endearment, were adapted into acclaimed films, and he co-wrote the Academy Award-winning screenplay for Brokeback Mountain with Diana Ossana. McMurtry was also a longtime antiquarian bookseller, running the store Booked Up in Archer City, Texas.