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Also Known As Larry Jeff McMurtry
Born June 3, 1936 • Wichita Falls • Texas
Died March 25, 2021 (aged 84)
Awards And Honors Academy Award (2006) • Pulitzer Prize (1986)
Notable Works “All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers” • “Brokeback Mountain” • “Buffalo Girls” • “Cadillac Jack” • “Duane’s Depressed” • “Horseman, Pass By” • “Leaving Cheyenne” • “Lonesome Dove” • “Moving On” • “Terms of Endearment” • “Texasville” • “The Desert Rose” • “The Evening Star” • “The Last Picture Show” • “The Last Picture Show” • “Zeke and Ned”
A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
American writer
James Goldman
American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist
Brooks, Richard
Richard Brooks
American writer and director
John Irving
John Irving
American author
William Goldman
William Goldman
American screenwriter, novelist, playwright, non-fiction author
James Agee
American author
Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder
American writer
Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo
American novelist and screenwriter
William Saroyan.
William Saroyan
American author
William Kennedy
American author and journalist
MacKinlay Kantor
American author
Sherwood, photograph by Yousuf Karsh
Robert E. Sherwood
American playwright
Foote, Horton
Horton Foote
American playwright and screenwriter
James McBride
James McBride
American musician, journalist, and author
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
American writer
Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard
American playwright and actor
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams
American playwright
Joan Didion
Joan Didion
American author
Schulberg, Budd
Budd Schulberg
American screenwriter, novelist, and journalist
Ben Hecht
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