Acclaimed author Larry McMurtry has passed away.
McMurtry was born in Archer City, TX back in the mid 1930s. From a young age, at his grandfather's ranch house, there were no books, but his extended family would sit on the front porch every night and tell stories, a love for stories filled his heart.
He later attended school at the Univerisity of North Texas, and recieved his masters degree and Rice university in Houston.
A pulitzer prizewinning author and screenwriter who told great tails of the American West, and especially the state of Texas that he loved.
Over the years he wrote more than 30 novels, and just as many screenplays, like "The Last Picture Show" and "Terms of Endearment."
McMurtry won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Brokeback Mountain" at the 78th Annual Academy Awards.
He is probably best known for the classic novel and eventual television mini-series "Lonesome Dove."
His cause of death has not been released. Larry McMurtry was 84.