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Date of Birth

3 June 1936, Wichita Falls, Texas, USA

Birth Name

Larry Jeff McMurtry

Spouse

Josephine Ballard

(15 July 1959 - 1966) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

Owned a Washington, DC bookstore for 25 years.

Father of actor and singer/songwriter James McMurtry, also a singer/songwriter, with six CDs.

Owns an antiquarian bookstore called Booked Up in his hometown of Archer City, Texas, consisting of four buildings full of books (upwards of 300,000 volumes of used and rare books in the four buildings combined).

Won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel "Lonesome Dove".

Several McMurtry imposters surfaced after the success of "Lonesome Dove" (1989), due to the fact that McMurtry is rather reclusive and likes to remain unknown.

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Volume 170, pages 237-252. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2008.

Personal Quotes

My typewriter is a Hermes 3000, surely one of the noblest instruments of European genius. And, ladies and gentlemen, can you believe it? It's kept me for 30 years out of the dry embrace of the computer.

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