Author Larry McMurtry died last month — Thursday, March 25 — at his home in the Texas town of Archer City, its population of 1,800 overshadowed several hundred times by the number of books he amassed there.
The store — Booked Up — is not far from the ranch where he grew up, the inspiration for much of his work. Best known for his 1985 novel Lonesome Dove (itself better known as the TV adaptation starring Robert Duvall) — McMurtry died of heart failure at age 84.
In the novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986, protagonist Augustus McCrae says, “The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.”
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