![]() McMurtry received his first Oscar nomination (shared with director Peter Bogdanovich) for adapting his 1966 semi-autobiographical book for The Last Picture Show. ![]() adapted his work and shared an Oscar nom.) (Husband-and-wife team Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. The movie rights were optioned by Newman and director Martin Ritt’s Salem Productions “almost before the last period put on the book,” he author said. His first published novel, 1961’s Horseman, Pass By, set in Texas ranching country, became the 1963 Paramount drama Hud, starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas and Patricia Neal. He wrote five pages a day - no more, no less - on a manual typewriter. ![]() ![]() McMurtry was the author of 29 novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays and more than 30 screenplays. ![]()
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