VJ Books presents Larry McMurtry!

Larry McMurtry is probably best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, which was adapted into a hit television miniseries. Much of his fiction is set in the "old west" or contemporary Texas.

He grew up on a ranch outside of Archer City, Texas. He earned degrees from North Texas State University (B.A. 1958) and Rice University (M.A. 1960). He published his first novels while an English instructor, and he won the 1962 Texas Institute of Letters Jesse M. Jones award. In 1964 he was awarded a Guggenheim grant.

A book collector, he purchased a rare book store in Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood in 1970 and named it Booked Up. He moved to Washington D.C. to run the store. In 1988 he opened a second Booked Up in Archer City, establishing the town as an American "Book City".

In 2006, he was co-winner of the Best Screenplay Golden Globe and Academy award for Brokeback Mountain.

Pretty Boy Floyd Signed First Edition

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Paradise Signed First Edition

Wandering Hill Signed First Edition

Comanche Moon Signed First Edition

When the Light Goes Signed First Edition

Last Picture Show
1. The Last Picture Show (1966)
2. Texasville (1987)
3. Duane's Depressed (1999)
4. When the Light Goes (2007)
5. Rhino Ranch (2009)

Terms of Endearment
Terms of Endearment (1975)
The Evening Star (1992)

Desert Rose
1. The Desert Rose (1983)
2. The Late Child (1995)

Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove (1985)
Streets of Laredo (1993)
Dead Man's Walk (1995)
Comanche Moon (1997)

 Berrybender Narrative
1. Sin Killer (2002)
2. The Wandering Hill (2003)
3. By Sorrow's River (2003)
4. Folly and Glory (2004)

Other Novels
Horseman, Pass by (1961)
     aka Hud
Leaving Cheyenne (1963)
Moving On (1970)
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (1972)
Cadillac Jack (1982)
Somebody's Darling (1987)
Anything for Billy (1989)
Some Can Whistle (1989)
Buffalo Girls (1990)
Pretty Boy Floyd (1994) (with Diana Ossana)
Zeke and Ned (1997) (with Diana Ossana)
Boone's Lick (2000)
Loop Group (2004)
Telegraph Days (2006)

Omnibus
Three Bestselling Novels: Lonesome Dove / Leaving Cheyenne / The Last Picture Show (1994)
 
Collections
Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay (2006) (with Diana Ossana and Annie Proulx)

Anthologies Edited
Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West--1950 to the Present (2000)
Lone Star Literature: A Texas Anthology (2003) (with Don Graham)

NonFiction
In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas (1968)
Film Flam: Essays On Hollywood (1987)
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen (1999)
Crazy Horse (1999)
Roads: A Millennial Journey Along America's Great Interstate Highways (2000)
Paradise (2001)
Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays On the American West (2001)
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 (2006)
Missouri River (2006)
Books: A Memoir (2008)
Literary Life: A Second Memoir (2009)
Hollywood: A Third Memoir (2010)

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