Larry McMurtry Dies: Prolific ‘Lonesome Dove’ Novelist & Oscar-Winning ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Screenwriter Was 84

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Larry McMurtry, who won an Oscar for penning Brokeback Mountain, earned a nomination for The Last Picture Show and authored books including Lonesome Dove and Tears of Endearment, has died. He was 8…

Lonesome Dove

was published in 1985, and the six-hour miniseries hit TV in time for the February 1989 sweep. It drew a massive audience for its three-night and went on to win seven Emmys among 18 nominations. The National Television Critics Association named it Program of the Year, and CBS received a Peabody for the show.hit bookstores in 1966 and became the 1971 Best Picture Oscar nominee starring

Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges and Ellen Burstyn. Supporting actors Cloris Leachman and Ben Johnson won Academy Awards for their roles. The book was the third in his “Texas Trilogy” set in the smnall town of Thalia, following Another McMurtry book series followed the character Duane Moore, the first two of which were adapted as . Both were scripted and directed by Peter Bogdanovich, who shared the Adapted Screenplay Oscar nom with the author.

 

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Heartbroken to know there will be no more classic American novels from Mr. McMurtry. Definitely one of our best.

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