Larry McMurtry, the Texas-born Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist known for bringing memorable characters and scenes to life in books and on screen, has died. His death was confirmed Friday by a ...

A literary center in Archer City, a tiny ranching town in Texas, keeps alive the legacy of famed Western author Larry McMurtry. Larry McMurtry was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Lonesome Dove." ...

Larry McMurtry walks from bookstore to bookstore during the auction of his private book collection in downtown Archer City, Texas on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. Contributing columnist Talmage Boston ...

ARCHER CITY, Texas — The celebrated Western writer, Larry McMurtry, aspired to turn this one-stoplight hometown into one of America's great book centers. For a time, he succeeded. You could visit one ...

Larry McMurtry was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Lonesome Dove." He won an Oscar for co-writing the screenplay for "Brokeback Mountain," and he founded a bookstore in his hometown, Archer City ...