However, the book recently found itself at the center of a political controversy through no fault of its own. Lonesome Dove was briefly mentioned during a recent legislative hearing about a new bill ...

Correction: This story has been updated to reflect the correct magazine for which Lawrence Wright works, the New Yorker. Larry McMurtry, the iconic and celebrated Texas author and screenwriter who ...

The lawmaker from Frisco has rallied right-wingers by promising to remove “sexually explicit” books from shelves. But he may lose them by targeting a beloved Texan classic. State representative Jared ...

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After Augustus McCrae came out on the porch to see the blue pigs eating a rattlesnake, he had to wait a spell before setting out on what would become the most famous cattle drive in American ...

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DALLAS (AP) — Larry McMurtry, the prolific and popular author who took readers back to the old American West in his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Lonesome Dove" and returned them to modern-day landscapes in ...

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Larry McMurtry, the esteemed author behind such landmark Western novels as Lonesome Dove, also penned this groundbreaking ...

Larry McMurtry, the iconic and celebrated Texas author who redefined the Western with his novel "Lonesome Dove," died Thursday night of heart failure. He was 84. Publicist Amanda Lundberg confirmed ...