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A list of some works of Larry McMurtry.

Fiction

Stand-alone novels

Thalia: A Texas Trilogy

Larry McMurtry's first three novels, all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II

Harmony and Pepper series

The books follow the story of mother/daughter characters Harmony and Pepper

  • 1983: The Desert Rose[15]
  • 1995: The Late Child[16]

Duane Moore series

The books follow the story of character Duane Moore

Houston series

The books follow the stories of occasionally recurring characters living in the Houston, Texas, area

  • 1970: Moving On (characters Patsy Carpenter/Danny Deck/Emma Horton/Joe Percy)[21]
  • 1972: All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers (Danny Deck/Jill Peel/Emma Horton)[21]
  • 1975: Terms of Endearment (Emma Horton/Aurora Greenway) – adapted for film as Terms of Endearment[21]
  • 1978: Somebody's Darling (Jill Peel/Joe Percy)[22]
  • 1989: Some Can Whistle (Danny Deck)[21]
  • 1992: The Evening Star (Aurora Greenaway)[23] – adapted for film as The Evening Star[24]

Lonesome Dove series

The Contrabando, a ghost town and movie set within Big Bend Ranch State Park, used for making the "Dead Man's Walk" and "Streets of Laredo" parts of the Lonesome Dove miniseries.

The Berrybender Narratives

As editor

  • 1999: Still Wild: A Collection of Western Stories[29]

Other writings

Nonfiction

  • 1968: In A Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas[21]
  • 1974: "It's Always We Rambled" (essay)[31]
  • 1987: Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood [31]
  • 1999: Crazy Horse: A Life (biography)[31]
  • 1999: Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond[31]
  • 2000: Roads: Driving America's Great Highways[31]
  • 2001: Sacagawea's Nickname—essays on the American West[31]
  • 2002: Paradise—South-Pacific travelogue/memoir[31]
  • 2005: The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley & the Beginnings of Superstardom in America[31]
  • 2005: Oh What A Slaughter! : Massacres in the American West: 1846—1890[31]
  • 2008: Books: A Memoir[34]
  • 2009: Literary Life: A Second Memoir[35]
  • 2011: Hollywood: A Third Memoir[36]
  • 2012: Custer[37]

Film

Television

  1. Cadillac Jack: A Novel, Kirkus Reviews, September 30, 2011. (in en)
  2. 'Anything for Billy' by Larry McMurtry, Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2008.
  3. Lonesome Jane, The New York Times, October 7, 1990.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Buffalo girls. OCLC 422719821. 
  5. An Unlikely Team--Law Clerk and Novelist--Write 'Pretty Boy Floyd' : Books: Diana Ossana was an unknown, a woman who had done a lot of writing but never had anything published. Larry McMurtry is one of America's most successful writers., Los Angeles Times, December 11, 1994.
  6. IIt's the Women Who Inspire in McMurtry's 'Zeke and Ned', Chicago Tribune, March 25, 1997.
  7. Saddle Sore: Review | Boone's Lick by Larry McMurtry, January Magazine, January 2001.
  8. Book Review: Loop Group, Texas Monthly, December 2004. (in en)
  9. Cowboys Are My Weakness, The New York Times, June 18, 2006.
  10. McMurtry Takes Aim At A Legend In 'Last Kind Words Saloon', NPR, May 27, 2014. (in en)
  11. Books of The Times, The New York Times, June 10, 1961.
  12. Hud. OCLC 878940995. 
  13. Leavin' McMurtry, Texas Monthly, March 1974. (in en)
  14. 14.0 14.1 Larry McMurtry, author of 'Lonesome Dove' and 'The Last Picture Show', dies, Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2021.
  15. The Desert Rose: A Novel, Kirkus Reviews, September 1, 1983. (in en)
  16. Once More, With Harmony, The New York Times, May 21, 1995.
  17. Texas Monthly Recommends: Larry McMurtry's 'Texasville', Texas Monthly, July 24, 2020. (in en)
  18. 'Duane's Depressed' by Larry McMurtry, Los Angeles Times, January 5, 1999.
  19. Duane's Depraved, The New York Times, March 18, 2007.
  20. Rhino Ranch by Larry McMurtry, Houston Chronicle, August 14, 2009.
  21. 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 After the Hurricane Winds Die Down, Larry McMurtry's Houston Trilogy Lives On, The New York Times, September 14, 2017.
  22. Books of The Times, The New York Times, December 20, 1978.
  23. Book Review / New terms in Texas: The Evening Star - Larry McMurtry, The Independent, October 22, 2011. (in en)
  24. 24.0 24.1 The evening star. OCLC 422886574. 
  25. Fiction Book Review: Streets of Laredo, Publishers Weekly.
  26. Fiction Book Review: Dead Man's Walk, Publishers Weekly.
  27. Book Review: Comanche Moon, Kirkus Reviews, September 15, 1997. (in en)
  28. 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 Father Knows West, Texas Monthly, December 2011. (in en)
  29. Two for the Road, Austin Chronicle, August 4, 2000.
  30. A thriller with extra dimensions. Controversial murder case makes exceptional video drama, Christian Science Monitor, January 22, 1988.
  31. 31.00 31.01 31.02 31.03 31.04 31.05 31.06 31.07 31.08 31.09 31.10 31.11 31.12 31.13 31.14 31.15 31.16 31.17 31.18 31.19 31.20 McMurtry, Larry 1936–. Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. Encyclopedia.com.
  32. 32.0 32.1 Falling from grace. OCLC 27150707. 
  33. 'Good Joe Bell' Review: Mark Wahlberg Stars in a Bad Movie About Bullying, Variety, September 15, 2020.
  34. Shelf-Possessed, The New York Times, July 27, 2008.
  35. McMurtry's 'Literary Life': Not Simple, But Practical, NPR, December 23, 2009. (in en)
  36. Nonfiction review: 'Hollywood: A Third Memoir' by Larry McMurtry, The Oregonian, August 21, 2010. (in en)
  37. Los Angeles Review of Books, February 3, 2013.
  38. The last picture show. OCLC 79950037. 
  39. Lovin' Molly. OCLC 423149680. 
  40. Terms of endearment : based on the novel by Larry McMurtry. OCLC 917295387. 
  41. Texasville. OCLC 633123542. 
  42. Green, Reinaldo Marcus. Good Joe Bell.
  43. The American Film Institute's 10th anniversary special. OCLC 423447816. 
  44. The murder of Mary Phagan. OCLC 747040812. 
  45. The murder of Mary Phagan. OCLC 423224348. 
  46. Lonesome Dove. OCLC 423140732. 
  47. Lonesome Dove. OCLC 774391218. 
  48. Return to Lonesome Dove. OCLC 29625796. 
  49. Lonesome Dove--the series. [1994, unidentified episode, no. 1]. OCLC 423140736. 
  50. Lonesome Dove : the outlaw years. [1995, unidentified episode, the return]. OCLC 423140737. 
  51. Comanche moon. OCLC 1145819768. 
  52. Comanche moon. OCLC 909055472.