Larry McMurtry was an American author and screenwriter of novels set in the West; whether they be set historically or during contemporary times. He had also written several works of non-fiction. He was best known for his novels Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove and co-writing the screenplay to Brokeback Mountain. Both Brokeback Mountain and Terms of Endearment won Academy Awards, while Lonesome Dove won a Pulitzer Prize.

Larry McMurtry became a published novelist in 1961 with Horseman, Pass By. That novel would be adapted into the film Hud, which the novel was also released as.

Larry passed on March 25th, 2021. he was 84 years old.

Below is a list of Larry McMurtry’s books in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of Thalia, Texas Books

Horseman, Pass By / Hud (1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Leaving Cheyenne (1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Thalia (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Last Picture Show Books

The Last Picture Show (1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Texasville (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Duane's Depressed (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
When the Light Goes (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rhino Ranch (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Houston Books

Moving On (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Terms of Endearment (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Somebody's Darling (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Some Can Whistle (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Evening Star (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Desert Rose Books

The Desert Rose (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Late Child (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Lonesome Dove Books

Lonesome Dove (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Streets of Laredo (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dead Man's Walk (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Comanche Moon (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Chronological Order of Lonesome Dove Books

Publication Order of Berrybender Narratives Books

Sin Killer (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wandering Hill (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
By Sorrow's River (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Folly and Glory (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Cadillac Jack (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anything for Billy (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Buffalo Girls (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pretty Boy Floyd (With: Diana Ossana) (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Zeke and Ned (With: Diana Ossana) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Boone's Lick (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Loop Group (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Telegraph Days (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Last Kind Words Saloon (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay (With: Annie Proulx,Diana Ossana) (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Crazy Horse (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Roads: A Millennial Journey Along America's Great Interstate Highways (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Paradise (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West, 1846-1890 (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Colonel and Little Missie (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Books: A Memoir (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Literary Life: A Second Memoir (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hollywood: A Third Memoir (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Custer (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Missouri River (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Penguin Lives Books

Abraham Lincoln (By: Thomas Keneally) (1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mao Zedong: A Life (By: Jonathan D. Spence) (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mozart: A Life (By: Peter Gay) (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Marcel Proust (By: Edmund White) (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Crazy Horse (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Saint Augustine (By: Garry Wills) (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
James Joyce (By: Edna O'Brien) (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rosa Parks (By: Douglas Brinkley) (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Virginia Woolf (By: Nigel Nicolson) (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Woodrow Wilson (By: Louis Auchincloss) (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Herman Melville (By: Elizabeth Hardwick) (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life (By: Sherwin B. Nuland) (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dante (By: R.W.B. Lewis) (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Jane Austen: A Life (By: Carol Shields) (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Buddha (By: Karen Armstrong) (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Simone Weil (By: Francine du Plessix Gray) (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Andy Warhol: A Biography (By: Wayne Koestenbaum) (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life (By: Marshall Frady) (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Joseph Smith (By: Robert V. Remini) (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Winston Churchill: A Life (By: John Keegan) (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pope John XXIII (By: Thomas Cahill) (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Charles Dickens (By: Jane Smiley) (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Elvis Presley (By: Bobbie Ann Mason) (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Saint Therese of Lisieux (By: Kathryn Harrison) (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Robert E. Lee (By: Roy Blount Jr.) (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life (By: Ada Louise Huxtable) (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
George Herbert Walker Bush (By: Tom Wicker) (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Napoleon (By: Paul Johnson) (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Julia Child (By: Laura Shapiro) (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Joan of Arc (By: Mary Gordon) (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Martin Luther (By: Martin E. Marty) (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Branch Rickey: A Life (By: Jimmy Breslin) (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Southwest Stories(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Still Wild(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lone Star Literature(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Notes: Horseman, Pass By was also released under the title Hud. The novels Pretty Boy Floyd and Zeke and Ned were written alongside Diana Ossana. Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay was written with Diana Ossana and Annie Proulx.

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