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Summary:

Scope and content: The McMurtry Collection at the UNT Libraries contains McMurtry's early manuscripts, which convey his development as a writer. These include college papers, correspondence, and drafts to his early novels, Horseman, Pass By and Laving Cheyenne. In addition to manuscripts, the Collection also consists of published first editions, most signed by McMurtry

Author/Creator:

McMurtry, Larry

Main Work:

Larry McMurtry Collection [by McMurtry, L.]

General Notes:

This collection is stored in the UNT Special Collections Vault and requires a minimum of 48 hour notice prior to use.
Larry Jeff McMurtry (born June 3, 1936) is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas..He is known for his 1975 novel Terms of Endearment, his 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, a historical saga that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive their cattle from the Rio Grande to a new home in the frontier of Montana, and for co-writing the adapted screenplay for Brokeback Mountain. Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries and both the films of Terms of Endearment and Brokeback Mountain won Academy Awards. He also awarded Brian Allen Carr the inaugural Texas Observer Story Prize.

Physical Description:

73.00 Items : (Includes manuscripts, papers, and published volumes.)

Organization and Arrangement of Materials:

The manuscripts in the Larry McMurtry Collection are numbered, and the corresponding numbers are listed in the finding aid with a brief description of the contents

Physical Characteristics:

paper

Call Numbers:

RB03

OCLC Numbers:

1269372364