Larry
Jeff
McMurtry
Born in Archer City, Archer, Texas, USA
Ancestors 
Brother of
[private sister (1940s - unknown)], [private sister (1940s - unknown)] and [private brother (1940s - unknown)]
Husband of
[private wife (1930s - unknown)]
Father of
James McMurtry
Died
at age 84
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 18 May 2016
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Biography
Larry McMurtry is Notable.
- Best-selling novelist, essayist and screenwriter, also in the used book business
- Father: William Jefferson McMurtry; mother: Hazel Ruth McIver
- Academy Award, 2006 for Adapted Screenplay of Brokeback Mountain
Sources
- "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VDMK-DXS : 1 January 2015), Larry Jeff Mcmurtry, 03 Jun 1936; from "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing Texas Department of State Health Services.
- "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWN6-WKT : 10 January 2021), Larry McMurty in household of W J McMurty, Justice Precinct 5, Archer, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 5-7, sheet 1A, line 32, family 14, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3979.
From behind the ancestry.com subscription wall:
- Texas Birth Index Entry for Larry McMurty, Ancestry.com. Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
- McMurty Family, Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Year: 1940; Census Place: Archer, Texas; Roll: T627_3979; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 5-7
- Ancestry.com. Texas, Marriage Index, 1824-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. McMurty/Haxby Marriage
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Categories: United States, Novelists | Notables
Wrote what would become the novel "Horseman, Pass By" (and later, the movie "Hud") while at Rice.
I've filled out several generations of his ancestors, including: McMurtry, McIver, Williams and Skaggs.
Also: Married Jo Scott Ballard, 1958. She is an English professor and an author of 5 books. Married Norma Faye Kesey in April 29, 2011, at Archer City, the widow of novelist Ken Kesey(Kesey-5).
3 sources are just login forms
Larry McMurtry 's hometown is Archer City, Archer County, Texas, USA
NOTed for Last Picture Show Archer City many, many others. Attended North Texas University, Denton, Denton, Texas, easily accessible information on either of these sites.