Humanities Texas remembers Larry McMurtry, acclaimed Texan novelist and screenwriter, who passed away on March 25, 2021, at the age of eighty-four. The author of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, and the film adaptation of Brokeback Mountain, McMurtry wrote about Texas and the American West for nearly six decades. In the course of his prolific career, McMurtry authored over thirty novels and fourteen books of nonfiction and wrote or co-wrote more than forty screenplays and teleplays. In 2014, he was honored with a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities. More»
