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Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936 – March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. During a career spanning six decades, he wrote more than thirty novels, numerous essays and memoirs, and approximately fifty screenplays. Films adapted from McMurtry's works earned 34 Oscar nominations with 13 wins, and his novels were the basis for several acclaimed television miniseries. McMurtry's early novels, including Horseman, Pass By (1961), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), examined the decline of small-town and rural Texas life; all three were adapted into major films. His 1985 book Lonesome Dove, often considered his magnum opus, won the Pulitzer Prize.

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Horseman, pass by

Larry McMurtry

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Stray leaves from an Arctic journal

Sherard Osborn

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The Fighting Texan

Will Cook

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Trigger trail

Todhunter Ballard

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The lilies of the field

William E. Barrett

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Homer Smith is hired by East German nuns to first help build a chapel. A school then other buildings are constructed. Smith, or “Schmidt” as he is called by the nuns, is an angel sent by God. Mother Maria conducts tours of the buildings. There is a painting of a saint who has a remarkable resemblance to "Homer Schmidt" on the wall of the chapel. Mother Maria remarks that Schmidt is “a man of great faith, of great devotion."

The Velvet Hammer

Faith Baldwin

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'Poignant novel of a young widow, her new love, and the woman who comes between them! A youthful war widow encounters strong opposition from her dead husband's mother when she falls in love again. ''Miss Baldwin is a skilled craftsman...a novel for pleasant reading''--Cleveland Press ''ANOTHER BONANZA FOR THE VETERAN AUTHOR'S FOLLOWING''--Columbus Dispatch