During his 84 years, Texas writer Larry McMurtry lived in many more sophisticated places than the one where he grew up. But his hometown of Archer City was the place that produced and shaped him, and ...

Larry McMurtry died in March 2021, a few weeks short of his 85th birthday. He was raised in Archer City, Texas, a desolate little village 25 miles south of bustling (by comparison) Wichita Falls.

ARCHER CITY, Texas — The celebrated Western writer, Larry McMurtry, aspired to turn this one-stoplight hometown into one of America's great book centers. For a time, he succeeded. You could visit one ...

American novelist Larry McMurtry died in 2021, but the essence of the Texas-born author still fills the same building that’s now home to the Larry McMurtry Literary Center. He is in the vases of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fans of Larry McMurtry, the iconic writer, will have a chance to peruse rare books at the former Booked Up and lay eyeballs on the ...

There are few writers more associated with Texas than Larry McMurtry, the “Last Picture Show” and “Lonesome Dove” author whose novels — frequently adapted for the screen — portrayed his home state in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The renowned bookstore founded in Archer City by award-winning "Lonesome Dove" author Larry McMurtry has been closed for over two ...

Tracy Daugherty’s new biography is the first comprehensive account of the prolific novelist who brought us “Lonesome Dove,” “The Last Picture Show” and more. Larry McMurtry in 1968. As a writer ...