Larry Jeff McMurtry (b.1936) is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the Old West or in contemporary Texas. His novels include Horseman, Pass By, The Last Picture Show, and Terms of Endearment, which were adapted into films earning 26 Academy Award nominations. His 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries that earned 18 Emmy Award nominations, with the other three novels in his Lonesome Dove series adapted into three more miniseries, earning eight more Emmy nominations. McMurtry and cowriter Diana Ossana adapted the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain, which earned eight Academy Award nominations with three wins, including McMurtry and Ossana for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
—Larry McMurtry
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