About Taylor, McMurtry wrote, “Husband management may be a feminist skill.” and “Though not so good at marriage, she was a wonderful friend.” He refers to Taylor’s strong roles in several movies, “M.G. Lord’s book, The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness And We Were Too Distracted By Her Beauty to Notice, for The New York Review of Books. Though he has valiantly attempted to dispel the myth of the great old west, the popularity of his books has betrayed that effort, with his greatest acclaim arguably the Pulitzer Prize awarded for Lonesome Dove, his historical saga about a cattle drive from the Texas-Mexico border to the frontier of Montana. Most are set in Texas and all are steeped in Texas values, with back road treks into traditions, mores, behaviors, and even taboos. Novelist, essayist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry has written more than forty-six books and countless articles, screenplays, and other published works.
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