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 works such as his emotional tale of a mother-daughter relationship in "Terms of Endearment," has died.
He was 84. McMurtry died Thursday night of heart failure, according to a family statement issued through a publicist on Friday.The statement did not say where he died but noted that he'll be buried "in his cherished home state of Texas." McMurtry, who had in his later years split his time between his small Texas hometown of Archer City and Tucson, Arizona, wrote dozens of books, including novels, biographies and essay collections.
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