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McMurtry, author of ‘Lonesome Dove’ and ‘Last Picture Show’, dies

Larry McMurtry, one of most acclaimed writers of the American experience, died Thursday at his home in Tucson, Arizona. Author of such popular and critically praised books as “Lonesome Dove,” “The Last Picture Show” and “Terms of Endearment,” McMurtry had been fighting complications from Parkinson’s

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