Larry McMurtry

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Larry Jeff McMurtry (born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls , Texas ) is an American writer , especially of Wild West novels , and screenwriter . He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for his novel Weg in die Wildnis , and an Oscar for best adapted screenplay in 2006 for his screenplay for Brokeback Mountain .

Life

Larry McMurtry is the son of a Texan rancher and grew up in the small Texas town of Archer City . He studied at North Texas State College (BA 1958), Rice University (MA 1960) and Stanford University . There he met the writer Ken Kesey , whose legendary journey the ' Merry Pranksters ' passed by McMurtry, Texas in the summer of 1964, a journey that Tom Wolfe later featured in his book Unter Strom. Made famous by the legendary journey of Ken Kesey and the Pranksters (1968).

McMurtry published his first novel The Wildest Among Thousand (original title Horseman, Pass By ) in 1961, since then he has written numerous other books and was president of the American PEN for two years for his 1985 novel Path in the wilderness (original title Lonesome Dove ), which drove a cattle from Texas to Montana in the late 19th century, he was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1986 . He has also written books on famous characters from American history such as Billy the Kid and Crazy Horse . Several of his books have been made into films. As a screenwriter, he was nominated for an Oscar in 1972 for The Last Performance , which he received in 2006 for Brokeback Mountain .

From 1959 to 1966 he was married to Josephine Ballard, with whom he has a son James (* 1962), who is now a folk rock singer and songwriter . In 2011 he married Norma Faye Kesey, Ken Kesey's widow.

In addition to his literary work, he is also active in the book trade and opened his first bookstore Booked Up in Washington in 1970 , which was followed by several others over the years.

Awards

Works

Individual novels and short stories

  • 1982 Cadillac Jack
  • 1988 Anything For Billy
    • Desperado, German by Olaf Krämer; Ullstein: Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna 1990. ISBN 3-550-06182-X
  • 1990 Buffalo Girls
    • Buffalo Girls, German by Astrid and Hans Herzog, Ullstein: Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 1993. ISBN 3-550-06041-6
  • 1994 Pretty Boy Floyd (with Diana Ossana)
  • 1997 Zeke and Ned (with Diana Ossana)
  • 1999 Still Wild: A Collection of Western Stories (as editor)
  • 2000 Boone's Lick
  • 2005 Loop Group
  • 2006 Telegraph Days
  • 2014 The Last Kind Words Saloon

Thalia: A Texas Trilogy

  • 1961 Horseman, Pass By
    • The wildest among a thousand, German by Bernhard Schmid; Goldmann: Munich 1991. ISBN 3-442-41096-7
  • 1963 Leaving Cheyenne
  • 1966 The Last Picture Show (also opening book of the series about Duane Moore )
    • The last performance, German by Sabine Hübner; Goldmann: Munich 1990. ISBN 3-442-09680-4

Duane Moore series

  • 1966 The Last Picture Show (also the last novel of the A Texas Trilogy )
    • The last performance, German by Sabine Hübner; Goldmann: Munich 1990. ISBN 3-442-09680-4
  • 1987 Texasville
  • 1999 Duane's Depressed
  • 2007 When The Light Goes
  • 2009 Rhino Ranch

Houston series

  • 1970 Moving On
  • 1972 All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers
  • 1975 Terms of Endearment
  • 1978 Somebody's Darling
  • 1989 Some Can Whistle
    • Hunt through Texas, German by Astrid Arz and Hans Herzog; Ullstein: Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 1994. ISBN 3-550-06721-6
  • 1992 The Evening Star
    • The Evening Star, German by Benno F. Schnitzler; Ullstein: Berlin 1997. ISBN 3-548-24108-5

Harmony and Pepper

  • 1983 Desert Rose
    • Stardust-Girl, German by Ute Mäurer u. Peter Prange; Droemer Knaur: Munich 1985. ISBN 3-426-01216-2
  • 1995 The Late Child

Lonesome Dove

  • 1985 Lonesome Dove
  • 1993 Streets of Laredo
    • Farewell to Laredo, German from Fred Schmitz; Ullstein: Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 1996. ISBN 3-550-06775-5
  • 1995 Dead Man's Walk
  • 1997 Comanche Moon

The Berrybender Narratives

  • 2002 Sin Killer
  • 2003 The Wandering Hill
  • 2003 by Sorrow's River
  • 2004 Folly and Glory

Scripts

Non-fiction

  • 1968 In A Narrow Grave - Essays on Texas
  • 1974 It's Always We Rambled (essay on rodeos )
  • 1987 film Flam - Essays on Hollywood
  • 1999 Crazy Horse (biography of the Lakota chief Crazy Horse )
  • 2000 Roads: Driving America's Great Highways (travelogues)
  • 2001 Sacagawea's Nickname (historical essays on the American West)
  • 2002 Paradise (travel report about the South Seas)
  • 2005 Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West 1846-1890
  • 2005 The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America
  • 2012 Custer

Autobiography

  • 1999 Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen
  • 2008 Books: A Memoir
  • 2009 Literary Life: A Second Memoir
  • 2011 Hollywood: A Third Memoir

Film adaptations

Web links

  • Literature by and about Larry McMurtry in the catalog of the German National Library
  • Larry McMurtry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  • [1] McMurtry homepage at his American publisher Simon & Schuster
  • [2] Interview with McMurtry in the New York Times, November 1, 1988 (English)
  • [3] Video interview by Charlie Rose with McMurtry and Diana Ossana about Pretty Boy Floyd (English)
  • [4] Portrait of McMurry in the New York Times, December 7, 1997 (English)
  • [5] Portrait of McMurry in Stanford Alumni Magazine 1999 (English)
  • [6] Interview with McMurtry on ew.com, November 7, 2003 (English)
  • [7] Interview with McMurtry on LAobserved.com, May 1, 2008 (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article from the Dallas Morning News
personal data
SURNAME McMurtry, Larry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McMurtry, Larry Jeff (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American novelist and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Wichita Falls , Texas, United States