![]() ![]() ![]() McMurtry relished his role as a literary outsider. “I don’t feel that it’s a myth that pertains, and since it’s a part of my heritage I feel it’s a legitimate task to criticize it.’’ “I’m a critic of the myth of the cowboy,’’ he told an interviewer in 1988. McMurtry wrote “ Lonesome Dove” as an anti-western, a rebuke of sorts to the romantic notions of dime-store novels and an exorcism of the false ghosts in the work of writers like Louis L’Amour. ![]() The book won a Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and was made into a popular television mini-series. Ossana, based on a short story by Annie Proulx), for which he won an Academy Award in 2006.īut he found his greatest commercial and critical success with “Lonesome Dove,” a sweeping 843-page novel about two retired Texas Rangers who drive a herd of stolen cattle from the Rio Grande to Montana in the 1870s. He also wrote more than 30 screenplays, including the one for “Brokeback Mountain” (written with Ms. McMurtry wrote more than 30 novels and many books of essays, memoir and history. ![]() The cause was congestive heart failure, said Diana Ossana, his friend and writing partner. Larry McMurtry, a prolific novelist and screenwriter who demythologized the American West with his unromantic depictions of life on the 19th-century frontier and in contemporary small-town Texas, died on Thursday at home in Archer City, Texas. ![]()
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