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2 unusual facts about Larry McMurtry


Thalia, Texas

Its name was given to the town portrayed in a number of Larry McMurtry's novels, including his first novel, Horseman, Pass By (1961).

William A. A. Wallace

Larry McMurtry included a fictionalized version of Wallace in his Lonesome Dove prequel, Dead Man's Walk.


Anarene, Texas

Its name was used for the town portrayed in the film adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel, The Last Picture Show.

Diana Ossana

Diana Lynn Ossana is an American writer who has collaborated on writing screenplays, teleplays, and novels with author Larry McMurtry since they first worked together in 1992, on the semi-fictionalized biography Pretty Boy Floyd.

Irving Paul Lazar

In addition to Bogart, Lazar became the agent representing the top tier of celebrities, including Lauren Bacall, Truman Capote, Cher, Joan Collins, Noël Coward, Ira Gershwin, Cary Grant, Moss Hart, Ernest Hemingway, Gene Kelly, Madonna, Walter Matthau, Larry McMurtry, Vladimir Nabokov, Clifford Odets, Cole Porter, William Saroyan, Irwin Shaw, President Richard Nixon and Tennessee Williams.

Jack Mapanje

PEN's president, US novelist Larry McMurtry, stated that "the point of the award is to generate enough heat so Mapanje gets out of jail".

Julian Claman

Claman wrote the novels Aging Boy (1964, cited in 2007 by Oscar-winning screenwriter/Pulitzer-winning author Larry McMurtry as a great lost novel), and (The Malediction) (1969).

Lonely Ol' Night

The title of "Lonely Ol' Night" was inspired by the 1963 film Hud starring Paul Newman, based on a book by Larry McMurtry.

Malcolm Cowley

Cowley taught the Stegner Fellowship graduate class at Stanford University in the fall of 1960; among his students were such future luminaries as Ken Kesey, Peter S. Beagle, and Larry McMurtry.

Return to Lonesome Dove

Return to Lonesome Dove (1993), written by John Wilder, is a TV miniseries involving characters created in Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning western novel Lonesome Dove.


see also

Thalia, Texas

In addition to Horseman, Pass By, Larry McMurtry's novels Leaving Cheyenne (1963), The Last Picture Show (1966), Texasville (1987), Duane's Depressed (1999) and When the Light Goes (2007) are set in or around "Thalia".