Larry McMurtry (1936–2021) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and bookseller known for his novels set on the frontier, in Texas small towns, and in urban and industrial parts of Texas. His notable books include The Last Picture Show (1963), Terms of Endearment (1975), and Lonesome Dove (1985), for which he won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. McMurtry also won an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay in 2006 for Brokeback Mountain; he and his longtime writing partner, Diana Ossana, wrote the screenplay based on a short story by Annie Proulx.
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