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McMurtry, Larry

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Larry McMurtry, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter, was born in 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas. He spent his early years on his father's ranch outside of Archer City. He graduated from the University of North Texas in 1958 and from a graduate program at Rice University in 1960. That same year he was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His first novel Horseman, Pass By won the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters in 1962. Hud, a movie based on this novel, received numerou...

Burden, Carter

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Carter Burden (1941-1996) was a progressive New York City Councilman, publisher, and media magnate. He was the son of photographer Shirley Carter Burden. While at Harvard, he majored in English, wrote his senior thesis on Henry Miller, and graduated cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree in 1963. Starting in 1969 he served three terms on the New York City Council. While in office, he served as chairman of the committee on health, lobbied for changes in laws about lead-...

Thompson, Hunter S.

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