McMurtry's urban trilogy, set in contemporary Houston, Moving On (1970), All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (1972), and Terms of Endearment (1975), all deal with love and marriage, and are examples of McMurtry's ability to consistently create a strong sense of place, characters, and dialogue.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he wore a t-shirt that read ""Minor Regional Novelist"", to help make this point. Despite the critical and popular success of ""Hud"" (Horseman Pass By) and The Last Picture Show, for which McMurtry wrote the Academy award winning screenplay (1972), McMurtry perceived a lack of appropriate recognition for his work in general.
His first seven novels were all set in Texas, some in the country, some in urban settings. A second Booked Up was opened in Archer City, Texas, in 1988. In 1970, he bought a rare-book store in Washington D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood, named it Booked Up, and relocated to run the store. Jones award, and in 1964, he won a Guggenheim grant. In 1962, he won the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse M. McMurtry published his first novels while working as an English instructor at Texas Christian University (1961-62), Rice University (1963-65), George Mason College (1970), and American University, (1970-71). 1960), and studied for one semester outside of Texas, at Stanford University, as a Stegner Fellow, (1960-61). He attended North Texas State University (B.A. He grew up on a ranch just outside of Archer City, graduating from Archer City High School in 1954. "Novelist, essayist, and screenwriter Larry McMurtry was born Jin Wichita Falls, Texas.
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