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Fiction
Stand-alone novels
- 1982: Cadillac Jack[1]
- 1988: Anything For Billy (fictionalized biography of Billy the Kid)[2]
- 1990: Buffalo Girls (fictionalized biography of Calamity Jane)[3] – adapted for TV as Buffalo Girls[4]
- 1994: Pretty Boy Floyd (with Diana Ossana) (fictionalised biography of the titular gangster)[5]
- 1997: Zeke and Ned (with Diana Ossana) (fictionalized biography of the last Cherokee warriors)[6]
- 2000: Boone's Lick[7]
- 2005: Loop Group[8]
- 2006: Telegraph Days[9]
- 2014: The Last Kind Words Saloon[10]
Thalia: A Texas Trilogy
Larry McMurtry's first three novels, all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II
- 1961: Horseman, Pass By[11] – adapted for film as Hud[12]
- 1963: Leaving Cheyenne – adapted for film as Lovin' Molly[13]
- 1966: The Last Picture Show – adapted for film as The Last Picture Show[14]
Harmony and Pepper series
The books follow the story of mother/daughter characters Harmony and Pepper
Duane Moore series
The books follow the story of character Duane Moore
- 1966: The Last Picture Show – adapted for film as The Last Picture Show[14]
- 1987: Texasville – adapted for film as Texasville[17]
- 1999: Duane's Depressed[18]
- 2007: When The Light Goes[19]
- 2009: Rhino Ranch: A Novel[20]
Houston series
The books follow the stories of occasionally recurring characters living in the Houston, Texas, area
- 1970: Moving On (characters Patsy Carpenter/Danny Deck/Emma Horton/Joe Percy)[21]
- 1972: All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers (Danny Deck/Jill Peel/Emma Horton)[21]
- 1975: Terms of Endearment (Emma Horton/Aurora Greenway) – adapted for film as Terms of Endearment[21]
- 1978: Somebody's Darling (Jill Peel/Joe Percy)[22]
- 1989: Some Can Whistle (Danny Deck)[21]
- 1992: The Evening Star (Aurora Greenaway)[23] – adapted for film as The Evening Star[24]
Lonesome Dove series
The Contrabando, a ghost town and movie set within Big Bend Ranch State Park, used for making the "Dead Man's Walk" and "Streets of Laredo" parts of the Lonesome Dove miniseries.
- 1985: Lonesome Dove, 1986 Pulitzer Prize winner[21]
- 1993: Streets of Laredo[25]
- 1995: Dead Man's Walk[26]
- 1997: Comanche Moon[27]
The Berrybender Narratives
- 2002: Sin Killer[28]
- 2003: The Wandering Hill[28]
- 2003: By Sorrow's River[28]
- 2004: Folly and Glory[28]
As editor
- 1999: Still Wild: A Collection of Western Stories[29]
Other writings
- 1988: The Murder of Mary Phagan – TV movie[30]
- 1990: Montana – TV movie[31]
- 1992: Memphis – TV movie[31]
- 1992: Falling from Grace[31] – film starring John Mellencamp[32]
- 2002: Johnson County War – TV miniseries[31]
- 2005: Brokeback Mountain (with Diana Ossana) – Oscar-winning screenplay (adapted from the short story by E. Annie Proulx)[31]
- 2020: Joe Bell (with Diana Ossana)[33]
Nonfiction
- 1968: In A Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas[21]
- 1974: "It's Always We Rambled" (essay)[31]
- 1987: Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood [31]
- 1999: Crazy Horse: A Life (biography)[31]
- 1999: Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond[31]
- 2000: Roads: Driving America's Great Highways[31]
- 2001: Sacagawea's Nickname—essays on the American West[31]
- 2002: Paradise—South-Pacific travelogue/memoir[31]
- 2005: The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley & the Beginnings of Superstardom in America[31]
- 2005: Oh What A Slaughter! : Massacres in the American West: 1846—1890[31]
- 2008: Books: A Memoir[34]
- 2009: Literary Life: A Second Memoir[35]
- 2011: Hollywood: A Third Memoir[36]
- 2012: Custer[37]
Film
- 1963: Hud (based on novel Horseman, Pass By from 1961)[31]
- 1971: The Last Picture Show (co-wrote screenplay, based on novel from 1966)[38]
- 1974: Lovin' Molly (based on the novel Leaving Cheyenne from 1963)[39]
- 1983: Terms of Endearment (based on novel from 1975)[40]
- 1990: Texasville (based on novel from 1987)[41]
- 1992: Falling from Grace (wrote screenplay and story)[32]
- 1996: The Evening Star (based on novel from 1992)[24]
- 2005: Brokeback Mountain (co-wrote screenplay with Diana Ossana and adapted from the short story by E. Annie Proulx)[31]
- 2020: Joe Bell (co-wrote screenplay with Diana Ossana)[42]
Television
- 1977: The American Film Institute's 10th Anniversary Special (writer)[43]
- 1988: The Murder of Mary Phagan (mini-series based on story)[44][45]
- 1989: Lonesome Dove (mini-series based on 1985 novel)[46][47]
- 1990: Montana (original screenplay)[31]
- 1992: Memphis (teleplay)[31]
- 1993: Return to Lonesome Dove (based on the fictional universe of the 1985 novel)[48]
- 1994–1995: Lonesome Dove: The Series (based on the fictional universe of the 1985 novel)[49]
- 1995: Buffalo Girls (based on 1990 novel)[4]
- 1995: Streets of Laredo (wrote teleplay, based on 1993 novel)[31]
- 1995–1996: Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years (based on the fictional world of the 1985 novel)[50]
- 1996: Dead Man's Walk (wrote teleplay, based on 1995 novel)[31]
- 2002: Johnson County War (wrote teleplay)[31]
- 2008: Comanche Moon (wrote teleplay, based on 1997 novel)[51][52]
- ↑ Cadillac Jack: A Novel, Kirkus Reviews, September 30, 2011. (in en)
- ↑ 'Anything for Billy' by Larry McMurtry, Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2008.
- ↑ Lonesome Jane, The New York Times, October 7, 1990.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Buffalo girls. OCLC 422719821.
- ↑ An Unlikely Team--Law Clerk and Novelist--Write 'Pretty Boy Floyd' : Books: Diana Ossana was an unknown, a woman who had done a lot of writing but never had anything published. Larry McMurtry is one of America's most successful writers., Los Angeles Times, December 11, 1994.
- ↑ IIt's the Women Who Inspire in McMurtry's 'Zeke and Ned', Chicago Tribune, March 25, 1997.
- ↑ Saddle Sore: Review | Boone's Lick by Larry McMurtry, January Magazine, January 2001.
- ↑ Book Review: Loop Group, Texas Monthly, December 2004. (in en)
- ↑ Cowboys Are My Weakness, The New York Times, June 18, 2006.
- ↑ McMurtry Takes Aim At A Legend In 'Last Kind Words Saloon', NPR, May 27, 2014. (in en)
- ↑ Books of The Times, The New York Times, June 10, 1961.
- ↑ Hud. OCLC 878940995.
- ↑ Leavin' McMurtry, Texas Monthly, March 1974. (in en)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Larry McMurtry, author of 'Lonesome Dove' and 'The Last Picture Show', dies, Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2021.
- ↑ The Desert Rose: A Novel, Kirkus Reviews, September 1, 1983. (in en)
- ↑ Once More, With Harmony, The New York Times, May 21, 1995.
- ↑ Texas Monthly Recommends: Larry McMurtry's 'Texasville', Texas Monthly, July 24, 2020. (in en)
- ↑ 'Duane's Depressed' by Larry McMurtry, Los Angeles Times, January 5, 1999.
- ↑ Duane's Depraved, The New York Times, March 18, 2007.
- ↑ Rhino Ranch by Larry McMurtry, Houston Chronicle, August 14, 2009.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 After the Hurricane Winds Die Down, Larry McMurtry's Houston Trilogy Lives On, The New York Times, September 14, 2017.
- ↑ Books of The Times, The New York Times, December 20, 1978.
- ↑ Book Review / New terms in Texas: The Evening Star - Larry McMurtry, The Independent, October 22, 2011. (in en)
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 The evening star. OCLC 422886574.
- ↑ Fiction Book Review: Streets of Laredo, Publishers Weekly.
- ↑ Fiction Book Review: Dead Man's Walk, Publishers Weekly.
- ↑ Book Review: Comanche Moon, Kirkus Reviews, September 15, 1997. (in en)
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 Father Knows West, Texas Monthly, December 2011. (in en)
- ↑ Two for the Road, Austin Chronicle, August 4, 2000.
- ↑ A thriller with extra dimensions. Controversial murder case makes exceptional video drama, Christian Science Monitor, January 22, 1988.
- ↑ 31.00 31.01 31.02 31.03 31.04 31.05 31.06 31.07 31.08 31.09 31.10 31.11 31.12 31.13 31.14 31.15 31.16 31.17 31.18 31.19 31.20 McMurtry, Larry 1936–. Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. Encyclopedia.com.
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 Falling from grace. OCLC 27150707.
- ↑ 'Good Joe Bell' Review: Mark Wahlberg Stars in a Bad Movie About Bullying, Variety, September 15, 2020.
- ↑ Shelf-Possessed, The New York Times, July 27, 2008.
- ↑ McMurtry's 'Literary Life': Not Simple, But Practical, NPR, December 23, 2009. (in en)
- ↑ Nonfiction review: 'Hollywood: A Third Memoir' by Larry McMurtry, The Oregonian, August 21, 2010. (in en)
- ↑ Los Angeles Review of Books, February 3, 2013.
- ↑ The last picture show. OCLC 79950037.
- ↑ Lovin' Molly. OCLC 423149680.
- ↑ Terms of endearment : based on the novel by Larry McMurtry. OCLC 917295387.
- ↑ Texasville. OCLC 633123542.
- ↑ Green, Reinaldo Marcus. Good Joe Bell.
- ↑ The American Film Institute's 10th anniversary special. OCLC 423447816.
- ↑ The murder of Mary Phagan. OCLC 747040812.
- ↑ The murder of Mary Phagan. OCLC 423224348.
- ↑ Lonesome Dove. OCLC 423140732.
- ↑ Lonesome Dove. OCLC 774391218.
- ↑ Return to Lonesome Dove. OCLC 29625796.
- ↑ Lonesome Dove--the series. [1994, unidentified episode, no. 1]. OCLC 423140736.
- ↑ Lonesome Dove : the outlaw years. [1995, unidentified episode, the return]. OCLC 423140737.
- ↑ Comanche moon. OCLC 1145819768.
- ↑ Comanche moon. OCLC 909055472.