![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the critical and popular success of ""Hud"" (Horseman Pass By) and The Last Picture Show, for which McMurtry wrote the Academy award winning screenplay (1972), McMurtry perceived a lack of appropriate recognition for his work in general. His first seven novels were all set in Texas, some in the country, some in urban settings. A second Booked Up was opened in Archer City, Texas, in 1988. In 1970, he bought a rare-book store in Washington D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood, named it Booked Up, and relocated to run the store. Jones award, and in 1964, he won a Guggenheim grant. ![]() In 1962, he won the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse M. McMurtry published his first novels while working as an English instructor at Texas Christian University (1961-62), Rice University (1963-65), George Mason College (1970), and American University, (1970-71). 1960), and studied for one semester outside of Texas, at Stanford University, as a Stegner Fellow, (1960-61). He attended North Texas State University (B.A. ![]() He grew up on a ranch just outside of Archer City, graduating from Archer City High School in 1954. "Novelist, essayist, and screenwriter Larry McMurtry was born Jin Wichita Falls, Texas. ![]()
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