Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry stood among thousands of books at his Booked Up store in downtown Archer City on Aug.

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 ...

The word “guru” fits George Getschow, a Dallas-based former Wall Street Journal editor, member of the Texas Institute of Letters, and director of the Archer City Writers Workshop. For years, George ...

Larry McMurtry has been called many things—the Melville of the American West, the Flaubert of the frontier, the Tolstoy of the plains. These are weighty comparisons, and they probably have more to do ...

When one of the greatest Texas writers dies, other writers pay close attention. That's the premise behind "Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry," just ...

David Streitfeld's impressive new biography, Western Star, has a subtitle that alludes to a notable part of his story: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry. Note that word, "legends." It is more ...