Following that, he suffered from severe depression and it was during this time he wrote 'Streets of Laredo,' a dark sequel to 'Lonesome Dove.' His companion Diana Ossana, helping to pull him out of his depression, collaborated with him on 'Pretty Boy Floyd' (1994) and 'Zeke and Ned' (1997). McMurtry suffered a heart attack in 1991 and had quadruple-bypass surgery. The other books in his Last Picture Show Trilogy are 'Texasville' (1987) and 'Duane's Depressed' (1999). The other titles in the Lonesome Dove Series are 'Streets of Laredo' (1993), 'Dead Man's Walk' (1995), and 'Comanche Moon' (1997). McMurtry's novel 'Lonesome Dove' (1985) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and the Spur Award and was followed by two popular TV miniseries. 'Terms of Endearment' (1975) received little attention until the movie version won five Oscars, including Best Picture, in 1983. 'The Last Picture Show' (1966) was made into a screenplay with Peter Bogdanovich, and the 1971 movie was nominated for eight Oscars, including one for best screenplay adaptation.

When he was 25, he published his first novel, 'Horseman, Pass By' (1961), which was turned into the Academy Award-winning movie Hud in 1962. Until the age of 22, McMurtry worked on his father's cattle ranch. He married Josephine Ballard in 1959, divorced in 1966, and had one son, folksinger James McMurtry. from Rice University in 1960, and attended Stanford University. from North Texas State University in 1958, an M.A. (Publisher Provided) Novelist Larry McMurtry was born Jin Wichita Falls, Texas. Larry McMurtry, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other awards, is the author of twenty-four novels, two collections of essays, two memoirs, more than thirty screenplays, & an anthology of modern Western fiction.

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