Larry McMurtry (1936-2021) was the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lived in Archer City, Texas.
"Lonesome Dove is Larry McMurtry's loftiest novel."--Los Angeles
Times
"A marvelous novel . . . moves with joyous energy . . . amply
imagined and crisply, lovingly written. I haven't enjoyed a book
more this year . . . a joyous epic."--Newsweek
"The finest novel that McMurtry has yet accomplished . . . Lonesome
Dove has all the action anyone could possibly imagine . . . [and]
both in general and in details, the authority of exact authenticity
. . . superb."--Chicago Tribune
"Everything about Lonesome Dove feels true . . . These are real
people, and they are still larger than life."--Nicholas Lemann, The
New York Times Book Review
"If you read only one western novel in your life, read Lonesome
Dove."--USA Today
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