Larry McMurtry was the author of more than thirty novels and memoirs, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. He received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Brokeback Mountain. The cinematic treatment of Terms of Endearment swept the boards at the 1984 Academy Awards, winning Oscars in several categories, including Best Picture. McMurtry died in 2021 in Archer City, TX, at the age of 84.

One of McMurtry's most powerful and moving achievements Los Angeles Times Gorgeous ... violent, funny, achingly sad, filled with heroism and regret ... If you can put Streets of Laredo down, I'll eat my ten-gallon hat Cosmopolitan Those who have been waiting ... for an appropriate sequel to the memorable and Pulitzer-winning Lonesome Dove can take heart. Streets of Laredo continues that epic of the waning years of the Texas Rangers with all the narrative drive and elegiac passion of its forerunner Publishers Weekly McMurtry has written a sad, funny elegy not only for his characters' pasts, but for the waning of the American West New York Times

Larry McMurtry was the author of more than thirty novels and memoirs, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. He received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Brokeback Mountain. The cinematic treatment of Terms of Endearment swept the boards at the 1984 Academy Awards, winning Oscars in several categories, including Best Picture. McMurtry died in 2021 in Archer City, TX, at the age of 84.

One of McMurtry's most powerful and moving achievements Los Angeles Times Gorgeous ... violent, funny, achingly sad, filled with heroism and regret ... If you can put Streets of Laredo down, I'll eat my ten-gallon hat Cosmopolitan Those who have been waiting ... for an appropriate sequel to the memorable and Pulitzer-winning Lonesome Dove can take heart. Streets of Laredo continues that epic of the waning years of the Texas Rangers with all the narrative drive and elegiac passion of its forerunner Publishers Weekly McMurtry has written a sad, funny elegy not only for his characters' pasts, but for the waning of the American West New York Times

Larry McMurtry was the author of more than thirty novels and memoirs, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. He received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Brokeback Mountain. The cinematic treatment of Terms of Endearment swept the boards at the 1984 Academy Awards, winning Oscars in several categories, including Best Picture. McMurtry died in 2021 in Archer City, TX, at the age of 84.

One of McMurtry's most powerful and moving achievements Los Angeles Times Gorgeous ... violent, funny, achingly sad, filled with heroism and regret ... If you can put Streets of Laredo down, I'll eat my ten-gallon hat Cosmopolitan Those who have been waiting ... for an appropriate sequel to the memorable and Pulitzer-winning Lonesome Dove can take heart. Streets of Laredo continues that epic of the waning years of the Texas Rangers with all the narrative drive and elegiac passion of its forerunner Publishers Weekly McMurtry has written a sad, funny elegy not only for his characters' pasts, but for the waning of the American West New York Times