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ⓘ About Larry McMurtry
McMurtry has worked on a number of projects and between his three major accomplishments. McMurtry is a consistent contributor to The New York Review of Books and has served as the president of PEN American Center, which is an organization to advance literature and freedom of expression. On April 29, 2011, McMurtry married his second wife Faye Kelsey and the two and most of their time down in Texas. All told, Larry McMurtry has had a remarkable writing career and will go down in history has one of the great American contemporary authors of our time. Many authors and novelists would kill to have the amazing success that McMurtry has had. He stuck with his particular genre, Western novels, and that proved to be an amazingly receptive audience for his work.
All Book Series by Larry McMurtry
Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay
Single-title series · published 2005 Co-authored · Annie Proulx,Diana Ossana
In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas
Series opener · book 1 of 14 · published 1968
Roads: A Millennial Journey Along America's Great Interstate Highways
Book 5 of 14 · published 2000
Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West, 1846-1890
Book 8 of 14 · published 2005
San Francisco Stories
Series opener · book 1 of 12 · published 1990 Anthology · John Miller
On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question
Book 3 of 12 · published 1992 Anthology · William Shakespeare,Virginia Woolf,Ambrose Bierce,Leo Tolstoy,Graham Greene,Langston Hughes,Emily Dickinson,John Donne,Plato,Jorge Luis Borges,Gustave Flaubert,Robert Coles,Walker Percy,Albert Camus,Cynthia Ozick,William Styron,Dorothy Parker,Sylvia Plath,Primo Levi,Phillip Lopate,John Miller,Genevieve Anderson,Alfred Alvarez,Émile Durkheim,Howard I. Kushner
New Orleans Stories
Book 4 of 12 · published 1992 Anthology · John Miller,Genevieve Anderson
Chicago Stories
Book 5 of 12 · published 1993 Anthology · Stuart Dybek,John Miller
Southwest Stories
Book 6 of 12 · published 1993 Co-authored · D.H. Lawrence,Alison Moore,Barry Gifford,Sandra Cisneros,Sam Shepard,Leslie Marmon Silko,C.G. Jung,John Miller,Georgia O'Keefe
Florida Stories
Book 7 of 12 · published 1993 Anthology · Dave Barry,Elmore Leonard,Ernest Hemingway,John D. MacDonald,Damon Runyon,Isaac Bashevis Singer,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Stephen Crane,Zora Neale Hurston,Elizabeth Bishop,Tennessee Williams,Alison Lurie,Wallace Stevens,John Sayles,John James Audubon,Joy Williams,Joan Didion,John Miller,KirstenMiller,William Bartram
Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems
Book 8 of 12 · published 1994 Anthology · John Miller,KirstenMiller
Alaska Stories
Book 9 of 12 · published 1995 Anthology · John Miller,KirstenMiller
Texas Stories
Book 10 of 12 · published 1995 Anthology · John Miller,KirstenMiller
San Francisco Thrillers
Book 11 of 12 · published 1995 Anthology · Tim Smith,John Miller
Cape Cod Stories
Latest in the series · book 12 of 12 · published 2002 Anthology · Tim Smith,John Miller
Abraham Lincoln
Series opener · book 1 of 32 · published 1960 Anthology · Thomas Keneally
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life
Book 12 of 32 · published 2000 Anthology · Sherwin B. Nuland
Simone Weil
Book 16 of 32 · published 2001 Anthology · Francine du Plessix Gray
Andy Warhol: A Biography
Book 17 of 32 · published 2001 Anthology · Wayne Koestenbaum
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life
Book 18 of 32 · published 2001 Anthology · Marshall Frady
Winston Churchill: A Life
Book 20 of 32 · published 2002 Anthology · John Keegan
Saint Therese of Lisieux
Book 24 of 32 · published 2003 Anthology · Kathryn Harrison
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life
Book 26 of 32 · published 2004 Anthology · Ada Louise Huxtable
George Herbert Walker Bush
Book 27 of 32 · published 2004 Anthology · Tom Wicker
Branch Rickey: A Life
Latest in the series · book 32 of 32 · published 2011 Anthology · Jimmy Breslin
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Larry McMurtry?
McMurtry has worked on a number of projects and between his three major accomplishments. McMurtry is a consistent contributor to The New York Review of Books and has served as the president of PEN American Center, which is an organization to advance literature and freedom of expression. On April 29, 2011, McMurtry married his second wife Faye Kelsey and the two and most of their time down in Texas.
Which Larry McMurtry series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Thalia, Texas series, the earliest of Larry McMurtry's multi-book series: it opens with Horseman, Pass By / Hud (1961) and runs to 3 books across 1961–2017, ending with Thalia (2017). Larry McMurtry's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Larry McMurtry written?
Larry McMurtry has 96 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1960 and 2017. 56 of them belong to 7 named series — the largest being the Houston series with 6 books — and 40 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Larry McMurtry's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Larry McMurtry's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Thalia, Texas (1961–2017, 3 books), Last Picture Show (1966–2009, 5 books) and Houston (1970–1992, 6 books), plus 3 more.
How are Larry McMurtry's books organised into series?
This guide splits Larry McMurtry's 96 books into 7 named series and 40 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Houston (6 books, 1970–1992); Last Picture Show (5 books, 1966–2009); Lonesome Dove (4 books, 1985–1997); Berrybender Narratives (4 books, 2002–2004); Thalia, Texas (3 books, 1961–2017), plus 2 further series.