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Lonesome Dove.
“Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in town.”
Those were the first words I ever read written by Larry McMurtry, who died March 25 at age 84. They certainly weren’t the last.
Texas author Larry McMurtry had a remarkable writing career that spanned six decades. He wrote fiction, nonfiction, memoir, television and film and was the rare writer to earn both a Pulitzer (Lonesome Dove) and an Oscar (Brokeback Mountain).
Photo by Diana Walker, 1978, True West Archives
In 1984, as a young reporter at the
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ENCAMPMENT, Wyo., Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The international bestselling writing team of W. Michael and Kathleen O Neal of Cody, Wyo., will receive the 2021 Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contributions to Western Literature, Western Writers of America (www.westernwriters.org) has announced.
The Gears, best known for their prehistory series of novels, will also be inducted into the Western Writers Hall of Fame, housed outside the McCracken Research Library at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody. For more than three decades, Kathleen and Michael Gear have been bringing the past to vivid life with their books about the indigenous peoples. Both individually and as a writing team, their work stands out for its focus and readability, WWA President Chris Enss said. The Wister Award was created for such talent.