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{{Image|Larry McMurtry Photo Last Picture Show 1966.png|right|300px|Author photo on the 1966 book jacket of his novel ''The Last Picture Show''.}}
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'''Larry Jeff McMurtry''' (Jun. 3, 1936 - Mar. 25, 2021) was a prolific American novelist whose work was predominantly set in either the early years of the Western [[United States of America|U.S.]] or in [[Texas]].<ref name="Rawson" /> His novels included ''Horseman, Pass By'' (1962), ''The Last Picture Show'' (1966), and ''Terms of Endearment'' (1975), all of which were adapted into films. Altogether, films adapted from McMurtry works won 13 Oscar Awards (and 34 nominations).
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| caption    = Cover of the first edition
His 1985, McMurtry's [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning novel ''Lonesome Dove'' was adapted into a television miniseries that won 7 Emmy Awards (and 18 nominations). The subsequent three novels in his [[Lonesome Dove series|''Lonesome Dove'' series]] were adapted as three more miniseries, earning eight more Emmy nominations.
| author     = [[Germaine Greer]]
 
| country    = United Kingdom
In 2005, McMurtry co-wrote, with Diana Ossana, the screen play of the film ''Brokeback Mountain'', adapted from a short story by E. Annie Proulx.<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
| language   = English
 
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In 2014, McMurtry received the [[National Humanities Medal]].<ref name=NatHumMedal />
| published  = 1970
 
| publisher   = MacGibbon & Kee
In Tracy Daugherty's 2023 biography of McMurtry, the biographer quotes critic Dave Hickey as saying about McMurtry:
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| isbn       = 0-374-52762-8
"Larry is a writer, and it's kind of like being a critter.  If you leave a cow alone, he'll eat grass.  If you leave Larry alone, he'll write books.  When he's in public, he may say hello and goodbye, but otherwise he is just resting, getting ready to do write."
| dewey      = 305.42 21
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| oclc        = 46574483
==Early life and education==
| followed_by = The Whole Woman
According to the astrodatabank website, McMurtry's birth certificate states that he was born in [[Wichita Falls, Texas]], the son of Hazel Ruth (née McIver) and William Jefferson McMurtry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/32/Larry-Jeff-McMurtry.html|title=Larry (Jeff) McMurtry Biography (1936-)|website=www.filmreference.com}}</ref> He grew up on his parents' ranch outside Archer City. The city was the model for the town of Thalia which is a setting for much of his fiction.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Life After 'The Last Picture Show' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/04/magazine/new-life-after-the-last-picture-show.html |work=The New York Times |date=April 4, 1982}}</ref> He earned a BA from the [[University of North Texas]] in 1958 and an MA from [[Rice University]] in 1960.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Judkins|first1=Julie|date=June 3, 2015|title=Happy birthday to our distinguished alumni Larry McMurtry!|url=https://blogs.library.unt.edu/unt125/2015/06/03/happy-birthday-to-our-distinguished-alumni-larry-mcmurtry/|publisher=UNT Special Collections|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Falk |first1=Jeff |title=Rice alum, author Larry McMurtry receives National Humanities Medal |url=https://news.rice.edu/2015/09/03/rice-alum-author-larry-mcmurtry-receives-national-humanities-medal/ |publisher=Rice University |date=September 3, 2015}}</ref>
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In his memoir, McMurtry said that during his first five or six years in his grandfather's ranch house, there were no books, but his extended family would sit on the front porch every night and tell stories. In 1942, McMurtry's cousin Robert Hilburn stopped by the ranch house on his way to enlist for World War II, and left a box containing 19 boys' adventure books from the 1930s. The first book he read was ''Sergeant Silk: The Prairie Scout''.<ref>{{cite book |last=McMurtry |first=Larry  |date=2008 |title=Books: A Memoir |pages=1–8}}</ref>
 
==Career==
 
===Writer===
During the 1960–1961 academic year, McMurtry was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at the [[Stanford University]] Creative Writing Center, where he studied the craft of fiction under [[Frank O'Connor]] and [[Malcolm Cowley]],<ref name="MothJon_">{{Cite web |title=Novelist Larry McMurtry's last kind words: "Lonesome Dove" author on closeted cowboys, pointless Pulitzers, and his latest Old West novel. |work=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |date=May 2014 |access-date=March 27, 2021 |url= https://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/05/larry-mcmurtry-brokeback-mountain-last-kind-words/ }}</ref> alongside other aspiring writers, including [[Wendell Berry]], [[Ken Kesey]], [[Peter S. Beagle]], and [[Gurney Norman]]. [[Wallace Stegner]] was on sabbatical in Europe during McMurtry's fellowship year.<ref name="NYRB_OnTheRoad_2002-12-05">{{Cite magazine |title=On the Road |last=McMurtry |first=Larry |magazine=The New York Review of Books |date=December 5, 2002 |access-date=March 27, 2021 |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2002/12/05/on-the-road/ }}</ref>
 
McMurtry and Kesey remained friends after McMurtry left California and returned to Texas to take a year-long composition instructorship at [[Texas Christian University]].<ref>{{cite web |title=A Guide to the Larry McMurtry Papers, 1968, 1987–1991 |url=https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tsusm/00048/tsu-00048.html |publisher=The Witcliff Collections |access-date=March 26, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> In 1963, he returned to Rice University, where he served as a lecturer in English until 1969, and a visiting professor at George Mason College (1970) and American University (1970–71). <ref>{{cite web |title=Guide to the Larry McMurtry and Diana Osanna Papers, 1890–2008, bulk dates 1980-2008 MS 276 |url=https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00133/rice-00133.html |publisher=Woodson Research Center |access-date=March 26, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> He entertained some of his early students with accounts of Hollywood and the filming of ''[[Hud (1963 film)|Hud]]'', for which he was consulting. In 1964, Kesey and his [[Merry Pranksters]] conducted their noted cross-country trip, stopping at McMurtry's home in Houston. The adventure in the day-glo-painted school bus ''[[Further (bus)|Furthur]]'' was chronicled by [[Tom Wolfe]] in his book ''[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]''. That same year, McMurtry was awarded a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]].<ref name="Guggenheim_Foundation_1964">{{Cite web |title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation: Larry McMurtry |work=[[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]] |access-date=March 27, 2021 |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/larry-mcmurtry/ }}</ref>
 
McMurtry won numerous awards from the [[Texas Institute of Letters]]: three times the [[Jesse H. Jones]] Award—in 1962, for ''Horseman, Pass By''; in 1967, for ''The Last Picture Show'', which he shared with Tom Pendleton's ''The Iron Orchard''; and in 1986, for ''Lonesome Dove''. He won the [[Amon G. Carter]] award for periodical prose in 1966 for ''Texas: Good Times Gone or Here Again?''<ref name="TIL_Awards">{{Cite web |url=https://www.texasinstituteofletters.org/archives/TIL-awards-complete-history.pdf |title=Texas Institute of Letters: Awards |last1=Compton |first1=Bob |last2=Wiesepape |first2=Betty |publisher=[[Texas Institute of Letters]] |access-date=March 27, 2021}}</ref> and the Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1984.<ref name="TIL_Awards_Lifetime">{{Cite web |title=Texas Institute of Letters: Literary Awards |work=[[Texas Institute of Letters]] |access-date=March 27, 2021 |url=https://www.texasinstituteofletters.org/awards/ }}</ref> In 1986, McMurtry received the annual [[Helmerich Award|Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award]] from the [[Tulsa City-County Library|Tulsa Library Trust]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award |url=http://helmerichaward.org/winners.php |publisher=Tulsa Library Trust |access-date=March 26, 2021}}</ref> He reflected on his 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, ''Lonesome Dove'', in ''Literary Life: A Second Memoir'' (2009), writing that it was the "''[[Gone with the Wind (novel)|Gone With the Wind]]'' of the West … a pretty good book; it's not a towering masterpiece."<ref name="Guardian_Flood_2021-03-27" />
 
McMurtry described his method for writing novels in ''Books: A Memoir''. He said that from his first novel on, he would get up early and dash off five pages of narrative. When he published the memoir in 2008, he said this was still his method, although by then, he wrote 10 pages a day. He also wrote every day, ignoring holidays and weekends.<ref>{{cite book|last1=McMurtry|first1=Larry|title=Books : a memoir|date=2008|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|isbn=9781416583349|page=[https://archive.org/details/booksmemoir00mcmu/page/49 49]|edition=1st Simon & Schuster hardcover|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/booksmemoir00mcmu/page/49}}</ref> McMurtry was a regular contributor to ''[[The New York Review of Books]]''.<ref name="NYRB_McMurtry">{{Cite web |title=Larry McMurtry |work=[[The New York Review of Books]] |access-date=March 27, 2021 |url= https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/larry-mcmurtry/ }}</ref>
 
McMurtry was a vigorous defender of free speech and, while serving as president of PEN American Center (now [[PEN America]]) from 1989 to 1991, led the organization's efforts to support writer [[Salman Rushdie]],<ref name="Ransom_Center">{{Cite web |url=https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingaid.cfm?eadid=00470 |title=Larry McMurtry: Biographical Sketch |publisher=[[Harry Ransom Center]] at the University of Texas at Austin |access-date=March 27, 2021}}</ref> whose novel ''[[The Satanic Verses]]'' (1988) caused [[The Satanic Verses controversy|a major controversy]] among some [[Muslims]], with the [[Supreme Leader of Iran]], [[Ayatollah]] [[Ruhollah Khomeini]], issuing a ''[[fatwā]]'' calling for Rushdie's assassination, after which attempts were made on his life.<ref name="Tomb">{{cite news |date=June 8, 2005 |title=Tomb of the unknown assassin reveals mission to kill Rushdie |last=Loyd |first=Anthony |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article531110.ece |url-status=dead |work=[[The Times]] |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601171205/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article531110.ece|archive-date=June 1, 2010 |access-date=March 27, 2021 }}</ref>
 
In 1989, McMurtry testified on behalf of PEN America before the [[U.S. Congress]] in opposition to immigration rules in the 1952 [[McCarran–Walter Act]] that for decades permitted the visa denial and deportation of foreign writers for ideological reasons.<ref name="Guardian_Flood_2021-03-27">{{Cite web |title=Lonesome Dove author and Brokeback Mountain screenwriter Larry McMurtry dies at 84 |author=Flood, Alison |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=March 27, 2021 |access-date=March 27, 2021 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/26/lonesome-dove-author-and-brokeback-mountain-screenwriter-larry-mcmurtry-dies-at-84 }}</ref> He recounted how before PEN America was to host the 1986 International PEN Congress, "there was a serious question as to whether such a meeting could in fact take place in this country... the McCarran–Walter Act could have effectively prevented such a gathering in the United States." He denounced the relevant rules as "an affront to all who cherish the constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression and association. To a writer whose living depends upon the uninhibited interchange of ideas and experiences, these provisions are especially appalling." Subsequently, some provisions that excluded certain classes of immigrants based on their political beliefs were revoked by the [[Immigration Act of 1990]].<ref name="PEN_America_2021-03-26">{{Cite web |title=PEN America Mourns Death of Novelist, Former PEN America President Larry McMurtry |work=PEN America |date=March 26, 2021 |access-date=March 27, 2021 |url=https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-mourns-death-of-novelist-former-pen-america-president-larry-mcmurtry/ }}</ref>
 
===Antiquarian bookstore businesses===
While at Stanford, McMurtry became a rare-book scout.<ref>{{cite news |last1=West |first1=Richard |title=Working Book Bound |url=https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1985/june/working-book-bound/ |work=D Magazine |date=June 1985 |language=en}}</ref> During his years in [[Houston]], he managed a book store called the Bookman. In 1969, he moved to the Washington, D.C., area. In 1970 with two partners, he started a bookshop in [[Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)|Georgetown]], which he named Booked Up. In 1988, he opened another Booked Up in Archer City. It became one of the largest antiquarian bookstores in the United States, carrying between 400,000 and 450,000 titles. Citing economic pressures from Internet bookselling, McMurtry came close to shutting down the Archer City store in 2005, but chose to keep it open after great public support.


In early 2012, McMurtry decided to downsize and sell off the greater portion of his inventory. He felt the collection was a liability for his heirs.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lindenberger|first=Michael|title=The Great Book Sale of Teas|url=http://nation.time.com/2012/08/15/the-great-book-sale-of-texas-larry-mcmurtry-gives-up-his-collection/|access-date=August 20, 2012|magazine=Time|date=August 15, 2012}}</ref> The auction was conducted on August 10 and 11, 2012, and was overseen by Addison and Sarova Auctioneers of [[Macon, Georgia]]. This epic book auction sold books by the shelf, and was billed as "The Last Booksale", in keeping with the title of McMurtry's ''The Last Picture Show''. Dealers, collectors, and gawkers came out ''en masse'' from all over the country to witness this historic auction. As stated by McMurtry on the weekend of the sale, "I've never seen that many people lined up in Archer City, and I'm sure I never will again."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Williams |first1=John |title=Wanted, Dead or Alive: Used Books |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/books/larry-mcmurtrys-book-auction-in-texas.html |work=The New York Times |date=August 12, 2012}}</ref>
'''''The Female Eunuch''''' is a 1970 book by [[Germaine Greer]] that became an international [[bestseller]] and an important text in the [[feminist]] movement. Greer's thesis is that the "traditional" [[suburb]]an, [[consumerism|consumerist]], [[nuclear family]] represses women sexually, and that this devitalises them, rendering them [[eunuch]]s. The book was published in London in October 1970. It received a mixed reception, but by March 1971, it had nearly sold out its second printing. It has been translated into eleven languages.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wilde |first=W. H. |author2=Hooton, Joy |author3=Andrews, Barry |title= The Oxford companion to Australian Literature|orig-year=1985|edition=2nd |year= 1994|publisher= Oxford University Press|location= Melbourne|isbn=0-19-553381-X |quote= ... the book became almost a [[sacred text]] for the international women's liberation movement of the 1970s, notwithstanding sporadic criticism of aspects of its [[ideology]] from some feminists.|page=271 }}</ref>


In April 2006, McMurtry was elected a member of the [[American Antiquarian Society]].<ref name="americanantiquarian">{{cite web|url=http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistp|title=MemberListP|website=American Antiquarian Society|access-date=2018-03-17}}</ref>
A sequel to ''The Female Eunuch'', entitled ''The Whole Woman'', was published in 1999.<ref>Greer. ''The Whole Woman'' Doubleday, {{ISBN|0-385-60016-X}}</ref>


[[File:Booked Up In Archer City.JPG|right|thumb|240px|One of McMurtry's bookstores in Archer City, Texas]]
==Summary==
[[File:Books! at Booked Up 29 Mar 2010.jpg|thumb|One of the aisles of books at Booked Up in Archer City]]
The book is a [[Feminism|feminist]] analysis, written with a mixture of [[polemic]] and scholarly research. It was a key text of the feminist movement in the 1970s, broadly discussed and criticised by other feminists and the wider community, particularly through the author's high profile in the broadcast media. In sections titled "Body", "Soul", "Energy", "Love" and "Hate" Greer examines historical definitions of women's perception of [[Self (psychology)|self]] and uses a premise of imposed limitations to critique modern [[consumer]] societies, [[female]] "[[Norm (sociology)|normality]]", and [[masculinity|masculine]] shaping of [[stereotype]]s quoting, "The World has lost its soul, and I my sex."<ref name="Greer, Germaine 2006">Greer, Germaine. ''The Female Eunuch''. UK: Harper Perennial, 2006.</ref> In contrast to earlier feminist works, Greer uses humour, boldness, and coarse language to present a direct and candid description of female sexuality, much of this subject having remained undiscussed in English-speaking societies. Greer's irreverence towards [[Sigmund Freud]] and [[psychoanalysis]] was inspired by [[Simone de Beauvoir]]'s ''[[The Second Sex]]''.<ref>{{cite book |author=Webster, Richard |title=Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis |publisher=The Orwell Press |location=Oxford |year=2005 |page=22 |isbn=0-9515922-5-4}}</ref> The work bridged academia and the contemporary arts in presenting the targets of the final section of the book, ''Revolution''; it is in accord, and often associated with, a creative and revolutionary movement of the period.
[[File:Cat, Booked-Up 2008.jpg|thumb|Bookstore cat, Booked Up (2008)]]


===Film and television===
Greer argues that men hate women, though the latter do not realise this and are taught to hate themselves.<ref>Wallace 1997</ref>
McMurtry became well known for the film adaptations of his work, which were seen by many viewers, especially ''[[Hud (1963 film)|Hud]]'' (from the novel ''[[Horseman, Pass By]]''), starring [[Paul Newman]] and [[Patricia Neal]];<ref name=hud/> the [[Peter Bogdanovich]]–directed ''[[The Last Picture Show]]'';<ref name=lastpictureshow/> [[James L. Brooks]]'s ''[[Terms of Endearment]]'', which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture (1984);<ref>{{cite web |url=http://oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1984 |website=oscars.org |title=The 56th Academy Awards; 1984 |archive-date=May 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160501230634/http://oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1984 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref> and ''[[Lonesome Dove (miniseries)|Lonesome Dove]]'', which became a popular television miniseries starring [[Tommy Lee Jones]] and [[Robert Duvall]].<ref name=LonesomeDove1989/><ref name=LonesomeDove2010withcreds/>


In 2006, he was co-winner (with [[Diana Ossana]]) of both the Best Screenplay [[Golden Globe]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=White |first1=Meghan |title=Brokeback Mountain: Interview with Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana |url=http://cinemalogue.com/2006/02/14/brokeback-interview/ |work=Cinemalogue |date=February 14, 2006}}</ref> and the [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for Best Adapted Screenplay for ''Brokeback Mountain,'' adapted from a short story by [[E. Annie Proulx]]. He accepted his Oscar while wearing a dinner jacket over [[jeans]] and [[cowboy boots]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hudak |first1=Joseph |title=Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove' Novelist, Dead at 84 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/larry-mcmurtry-dead-lonesome-dove-book-1147577/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=March 26, 2021}}</ref> In his speech, he promoted books, reminding the audience the movie was developed from a short story. In his Golden Globe acceptance speech, he paid tribute to his Swiss-made [[Hermes 3000]] typewriter.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Keller |first1=Julia |last2=Elder |first2=Robert K. |title=What's so special about a Hermes 3000? |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-01-20-0601190365-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune |date=January 20, 2006}}</ref>
In her final title labelled ''Revolution'', Greer argues that change had to come about via [[Social revolution|revolution]], not evolution. Women should get to know and come to accept their own bodies, taste their own menstrual blood, and give up [[celibacy]] and [[monogamy]]. Yet they should not burn their bras. "Bras are a ludicrous invention", she wrote, "but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression."<ref>Foreword to the Paladin 21st Anniversary Edition, 2006.</ref> Greer complains of the "genteel, middle-class ladies" who sit on women's rights committees and spend their time signing petitions to achieve equality. Greer expresses that to gain equality a woman must not be genteel but she should instead seek revolution.
In a foreword added to the 21st anniversary edition, Greer references the loss of women's freedom with the "sudden death of communism" (1989) as catapult for women the world over for a sudden transition into consumer Western society wherein there is little to no protection for mothers and the disabled; here, there is no freedom to speak:


==Personal life==
<blockquote>The freedom I pleaded for twenty years ago was freedom to be a person, with dignity, integrity, nobility, passion, pride that constitute personhood. Freedom to run, shout, talk loudly and sit with your knees apart. Freedom to know and love the earth and all that swims, lies, and crawls upon it ... most of the women in the world are still afraid, still hungry, still mute and loaded by religion with all kinds of fetters, masked, muzzled, mutilated and beaten.<ref>{{cite book |author=Greer, Germaine |title=The Female Eunuch |publisher=Flamingo |location=London |year=1993 |page=[https://archive.org/details/femaleeunuc000gree/page/11 11] |isbn=0-586-08055-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/femaleeunuc000gree/page/11 }}</ref></blockquote>
McMurtry married Jo Scott, who is an English professor and has authored five books.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hendricks |first1=Diana Finlay |title=Larry McMurtry: An Accidental Feminist? |url=http://www.dianahendricks.com/larry-mcmurtry-an-accidental-feminist.html |website=dianahendricks.com |access-date=March 26, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> Before divorcing, they had a son together, [[James McMurtry]]. Both he and his son (Larry's grandson) Curtis McMurtry are singer/songwriters and guitarists.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Granberry |first1=Michael |title=Texas literary giant Larry McMurtry dies at 84 |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/2021/03/26/texas-literary-giant-larry-mcmurtry-dies-at-84/ |work=The Dallas Morning News |date=March 26, 2021 |language=en}}</ref>


In 1991 McMurtry underwent heart surgery.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hoinski |first1=Michael |title='Lonesome Dove' Legend Larry McMurtry on Fiction, Money, Womanizing, and Old Age |url=http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/larry-mcmurtry-lonesome-dove-new-book-interview/ |date=May 22, 2014 |website=Grantland |access-date=May 5, 2023}}</ref> During his recovery, he suffered severe depression. He recovered at the home of his future writing partner Diana Ossana and wrote his novel ''[[Streets of Laredo (novel)|Streets of Laredo]]'' at her kitchen counter.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://abc11.com/larry-mcmurtry-death-writer-texas-obituary/10450245/| title = Larry McMurtry, one of Texas' greatest writers, dead at 84 - ABC11 Raleigh-Durham| date = March 26, 2021}} </ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Horowitz |first1=Mark |title=Larry McMurtry's Dream Job |date=December 7, 1997 |url=http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/97/12/07/home/article2.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=December 9, 2018}}</ref>
==Reception==
[[File:Crop (2) of Camille Paglia no Fronteiras do Pensamento São Paulo 2015.jpg|thumb|[[Camille Paglia]] is an ardent fan of ''The Female Eunuch'', highlighting Greer's "brilliant and aggressive voice".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/germaine-greer-professional-contrarian-nature-lover-and-feminist-20180611-h117ny|title=Germaine Greer: professional contrarian, nature lover, and feminist|work=[[Australian Financial Review]]|date=22 June 2018|accessdate=16 January 2023}}</ref>]]
In a 1971 interview, Greer said of her book that "The title is an indication of the problem. Women have somehow been separated from their libido, from their faculty of desire, from their sexuality. They've become suspicious about it. Like beasts, for example, who are castrated in farming in order to serve their master's ulterior motives—to be fattened or made docile—women have been cut off from their capacity for action. It's a process that sacrifices vigor for delicacy and succulence, and one that's got to be changed."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/22/archives/germaine-greer-opinions-that-may-shock-the-faithful.html |title=Germaine Greer -- Opinions That May Shock the Faithful |first=Judith |last=Weinraub |date=22 March 1971 |work=[[The New York Times]] |at=food fashions family furnishings section, page 28 |archive-url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/09/specials/greer-shock.html |archive-date=5 October 2016}}</ref> In January 1972 ''[[The Age]]''{{'}}s reviewer [[Thelma Forshaw]] described ''The Female Eunuch'' as "the orchestrated over-the-back-fence grizzle ... based on the curious fancy ... we were all men, and then some fiend castrated half of us and gave us a ghastly internal bookie's bag called a womb".<ref name="Ricketson">{{cite book | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ShkiqPn_tToC&pg=PA53 | title = The Best Australian Profiles | chapter = Germaine Greer | last = Dunstan | first = Keith | author-link = Keith Dunstan | editor = Matthew Ricketson | page = 53 | location = Melbourne, Vic | publisher = Black Inc | year = 2004 | isbn = 9781863952934 }}</ref> The newspaper declared that the review "has stirred up a considerable controversy".<ref name="Age1">{{cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19720120&id=neFUAAAAIBAJ&pg=5321,3108293 | title = Letters to the Editor | page = 8 | work = [[The Age]] | publisher = [[Fairfax Media]] | date = 20 January 1972 | access-date = 13 November 2012 }}</ref> According to the journalist [[Keith Dunstan]], "[t]he reviews of [the book] were extremely mixed. The most famous was by [Forshaw] of ''The Age''".<ref name="Ricketson"/> Dunstan contrasted this with a positive review by [[Sylvia Lawson]] of ''[[The Australian]]'', "[it has] been greeted in Australia with some fantastically myopic, complacent and resentful printed comment ... [the book] is neither dogmatic nor complacent, neither strident nor paranoic ... [it is] ranging, exploratory and questioning".<ref name="Ricketson"/>


McMurtry married Norma Faye Kesey, the widow of writer [[Ken Kesey]], on April 29, 2011, in a civil ceremony in Archer City.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/books/20110505-author-larry-mcmurtry-marries-ken-keseys-widow.ece | last=Granberry | first=Michael | title=Author Larry McMurtry marries Ken Kesey's widow | work=[[The Dallas Morning News]] | date=May 5, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110508042526/http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/books/20110505-author-larry-mcmurtry-marries-ken-keseys-widow.ece | archive-date=May 8, 2011 | access-date=May 5, 2023}}</ref>
[[Laura Miller (writer)|Laura Miller]] of ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'' described the book as a "fitful, passionate, scattered text, not cohesive enough to qualify as a manifesto. It's all over the place, impulsive, and fatally naive—which is to say it is the quintessential product of its time."<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/06/22/greer | title = Germaine Greer | access-date = 2007-05-22 | author =  Laura Miller | date=  1999-06-22 | work = Brilliant Careers | publisher = Salon  | pages = 1 of 2 | quote = They didn't become megastars, but they became a librarian or something. I've heard women say again and again when the subject of Germaine comes up: 'Well, her book changed my life for the better.' And they'll be modest women living pretty ordinary lives, but better lives." Women entirely unlike Germaine Greer, the feminist who improved the world in spite of herself. }}</ref> The neuroscientist [[Simon LeVay]] wrote in ''[[Queer Science]]'' (1996) that subsequent scientific research contradicted Greer's claim that there are no differences between the brains of men and women.<ref>{{cite book |author=LeVay, Simon |title=Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality |publisher=The MIT Press |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |year=1996 |pages=139&ndash;143 |isbn=0-262-12199-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/queerscienceusea00leva/page/139 }}</ref> The critic [[Camille Paglia]] called ''The Female Eunuch'' a "marvelous book", and described Greer's international tour to promote it as "the zenith of twentieth-century feminism".<ref>{{cite book |author=Paglia, Camille |title=Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism |publisher=Pantheon Books |location=New York |year=2017 |page=131 |isbn=978-0-375-42477-9}}</ref>


McMurtry died on March 25, 2021, at his home in Archer City, Texas. He was 84 years old.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Garner|first=Dwight|date=March 26, 2021|title=Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/books/larry-mcmurtry-dead.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/books/larry-mcmurtry-dead.html |archive-date=December 28, 2021 |url-access=limited|access-date=March 26, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
==Notes==
 
{{Reflist}}
It was announced in early 2023 that McMurtry's personal property including his writing desk, typewriters and personal book collection would be sold at public auction by Vogt Auction in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], on May 29, 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Marini |first=Richard A. |date=2023-02-07 |title=Larry McMurtry auction includes signed books, desk, typewriter, boots |url=https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/larry-mcmurtry-auction-17762043.php |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=San Antonio Express-News |language=en-US}}</ref>
 
==Fiction==
=== Stand-alone novels ===
* 1982: ''Cadillac Jack''<ref>{{cite news |title=Cadillac Jack: A Novel |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/larry-mcmurtry/cadillac-jack/ |work=Kirkus Reviews |date=September 30, 2011 |language=en}}</ref>
* 1988: ''Anything For Billy'' (fictionalized biography of [[Billy the Kid]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gish |first1=Robert |title='Anything for Billy' by Larry McMurtry |url=https://www.latimes.com/la-bk-larry-mcmurtry-1988-10-30-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
* 1990: ''[[Buffalo Girls]]'' (fictionalized biography of [[Calamity Jane]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fromberg Schaeffer |first1=Susan |title=Lonesome Jane |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/mcmurtry-buffalo.html?scp=6&sq=Buffalo%2520Girls&st=cse |work=The New York Times |date=October 7, 1990}}</ref> – adapted for TV as ''[[Buffalo Girls (miniseries)|Buffalo Girls]]''<ref name=buffalogirls/>
* 1994: ''Pretty Boy Floyd'' (with [[Diana Ossana]]) (fictionalised biography of the [[Pretty Boy Floyd|titular gangster]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Combs |first1=Casey |title=An Unlikely Team--Law Clerk and Novelist--Write 'Pretty Boy Floyd' : Books: Diana Ossana was an unknown, a woman who had done a lot of writing but never had anything published. Larry McMurtry is one of America's most successful writers. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-11-me-7535-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |agency=Associated Press |date=December 11, 1994}}</ref>
* 1997: ''Zeke and Ned'' (with Diana Ossana) (fictionalized biography of the last Cherokee warriors)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Dean |title=IIt's the Women Who Inspire in McMurtry's 'Zeke and Ned' |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-03-25-9703250029-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune |date=March 25, 1997}}</ref>
* 2000: ''Boone's Lick''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kingston Pierce |first1=J. |title=Saddle Sore: Review {{!}} Boone's Lick by Larry McMurtry |url=https://www.januarymagazine.com/fiction/booneslick.html |work=January Magazine |date=January 2001}}</ref>
* 2005: ''Loop Group''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shea |first1=Mike |title=Book Review: Loop Group |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/loop-group/ |work=Texas Monthly |date=December 2004 |language=en}}</ref>
* 2006: ''Telegraph Days''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cain |first1=Chelsea |title=Cowboys Are My Weakness |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/books/review/18cain.html |work=The New York Times |date=June 18, 2006}}</ref>
* 2014: ''The Last Kind Words Saloon''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cheuse |first1=Alan |title=McMurtry Takes Aim At A Legend In 'Last Kind Words Saloon' |url=https://www.npr.org/2014/05/27/314614737/mcmurtry-takes-aim-at-a-legend-in-last-kind-words-saloon |work=NPR |date=May 27, 2014 |language=en}}</ref>
 
===''Thalia: A Texas Trilogy''===
Larry McMurtry's first three novels, all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II
* 1961: ''[[Horseman, Pass By]]''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Poore |first1=Charles |title=Books of The Times |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/07/home/mcmurtry-horseman.html |work=The New York Times |date=June 10, 1961}}</ref> – adapted for film as ''[[Hud (1963 film)|Hud]]''<ref name=hud>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/878940995 |via=worldcat.org |title=Hud |oclc=878940995 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
* 1963: ''[[Leaving Cheyenne]]'' – adapted for film as ''[[Lovin' Molly]]''<ref>{{cite news |last1=King |first1=Larry L. |title=Leavin' McMurtry |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/leavin-mcmurtry/ |work=Texas Monthly |date=March 1974 |language=en}}</ref>
* 1966: ''The Last Picture Show'' – adapted for film as ''[[The Last Picture Show]]''<ref name="LATimesObit">{{cite news |last1=Curwen |first1=Thomas |title=Larry McMurtry, author of 'Lonesome Dove' and 'The Last Picture Show', dies |url=https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2021-03-26/larry-mcmurtry-author-of-lonesome-dove-and-the-last-picture-show-dies-at-84 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 26, 2021}}</ref>
 
=== ''Harmony and Pepper'' series ===
The books follow the story of mother/daughter characters Harmony and Pepper
* 1983: ''The Desert Rose''<ref>{{cite news |title=The Desert Rose: A Novel |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/larry-mcmurtry/desert-rose-2/ |work=Kirkus Reviews |date=September 1, 1983 |language=en}}</ref>
* 1995: ''The Late Child''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Klinkenborg |first1=Verlyn |title=Once More, With Harmony |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/mcmurtry-late.html |work=The New York Times |date=May 21, 1995}}</ref>
 
=== ''Duane Moore'' series ===
The books follow the story of character Duane Moore
* 1966: ''The Last Picture Show'' – adapted for film as ''[[The Last Picture Show]]''<ref name="LATimesObit"/>
* 1987: ''Texasville'' – adapted for film as ''[[Texasville]]''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Prewitt |first1=Taylor |title=Texas Monthly Recommends: Larry McMurtry's 'Texasville' |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/texas-monthly-recommends-larry-mcmurtrys-texasville/ |work=Texas Monthly |date=July 24, 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* 1999: ''Duane's Depressed''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Harris |first1=Michael |title='Duane's Depressed' by Larry McMurtry |url=https://www.latimes.com/la-bk-larry-mcmurtry-1999-01-05-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=January 5, 1999}}</ref>
* 2007: ''When The Light Goes''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Leland |first1=John |title=Duane's Depraved |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/books/review/Leland.t.html |work=The New York Times |date=March 18, 2007}}</ref>
* 2009: ''Rhino Ranch: A Novel''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hendricks |first1=David |title=Rhino Ranch by Larry McMurtry |url=https://www.chron.com/life/books/article/Rhino-Ranch-by-Larry-McMurtry-1731838.php |work=Houston Chronicle |date=August 14, 2009}}</ref>
 
=== ''Houston'' series ===
The books follow the stories of occasionally recurring characters living in the Houston, Texas, area
* 1970: ''Moving On'' (characters Patsy Carpenter/Danny Deck/Emma Horton/Joe Percy)<ref name="NYT2017"/>
* 1972: ''All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers'' (Danny Deck/Jill Peel/Emma Horton)<ref name="NYT2017"/>
* 1975: ''Terms of Endearment'' (Emma Horton/Aurora Greenway) – adapted for film as ''[[Terms of Endearment]]''<ref name="NYT2017"/>
* 1978: ''Somebody's Darling'' (Jill Peel/Joe Percy)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lehmann-Haupt |first1=Christopher |title=Books of The Times |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/07/home/mcmurtry-darling.html |work=The New York Times |date=December 20, 1978}}</ref>
* 1989: ''Some Can Whistle'' (Danny Deck)<ref name="NYT2017"/>
* 1992: ''The Evening Star'' (Aurora Greenaway)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bradfield |first1=Scott |title=Book Review / New terms in Texas: The Evening Star - Larry McMurtry |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/book-review-new-terms-in-texas-the-evening-star-larry-mcmurtry-orion-pounds-14-99-1553192.html |work=The Independent |date=October 22, 2011 |language=en}}</ref> – adapted for film as ''[[The Evening Star]]''<ref name=eveningstar/>
 
=== [[Lonesome Dove series|''Lonesome Dove'' series]] ===
[[File:The Contrabando, a ghost town within Big Bend Ranch State Park, west of Lajitas, Texas, on Texas State Highway 170 LCCN2014630277.tif|thumb|The Contrabando, a ghost town and movie set within [[Big Bend Ranch State Park]], used for making the  "Dead Man's Walk" and "Streets of Laredo" parts of the [[Lonesome Dove (miniseries)|''Lonesome Dove'' miniseries]].]]
* 1985: ''[[Lonesome Dove]]'', 1986 [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction|Pulitzer Prize]] winner<ref name="NYT2017">{{cite news |last1=Brinkley |first1=Douglas |title=After the Hurricane Winds Die Down, Larry McMurtry's Houston Trilogy Lives On |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/books/review/larry-mcmurtry-houston-trilogy-terms-of-endearment.html |work=The New York Times |date=September 14, 2017}}</ref>
* 1993: ''[[Streets of Laredo (novel)|Streets of Laredo]]''<ref>{{cite news |title=Fiction Book Review: Streets of Laredo |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-671-79281-7 |access-date=March 26, 2021 |work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
* 1995: ''[[Dead Man's Walk]]''<ref>{{cite news |title=Fiction Book Review: Dead Man's Walk |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-684-80753-9 |access-date=March 26, 2021 |work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
* 1997: ''[[Comanche Moon]]''<ref>{{cite news |title=Book Review: Comanche Moon |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/larry-mcmurtry/comanche-moon/ |work=Kirkus Reviews |date=September 15, 1997 |language=en}}</ref>
 
=== ''[[The Berrybender Narratives]]'' ===
* 2002: ''[[Sin Killer]]''<ref name="Father Knows West">{{cite news |last1=Graham |first1=Don |title=Father Knows West |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/father-knows-west/ |work=Texas Monthly |date=December 2011 |language=en}}</ref>
* 2003: ''[[The Wandering Hill]]''<ref name="Father Knows West"/>
* 2003: ''[[By Sorrow's River]]''<ref name="Father Knows West"/>
* 2004: ''[[Folly and Glory]]''<ref name="Father Knows West"/>
 
=== As editor ===
* 1999: ''Still Wild: A Collection of Western Stories''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Holland |first1=Dick |title=Two for the Road |url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/books/2000-08-04/78081/ |work=Austin Chronicle |date=August 4, 2000}}</ref>
 
=== Other writings ===
* 1988: ''[[The Murder of Mary Phagan]]'' – TV movie<ref>{{cite news |last1=Unger |first1=Arthur |title=A thriller with extra dimensions. Controversial murder case makes exceptional video drama |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1988/0122/lphag.html |work=Christian Science Monitor |date=January 22, 1988}}</ref>
* 1990: ''Montana'' – TV movie<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
* 1992: ''Memphis'' – TV movie<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
* 1992: ''[[Falling from Grace (film)|Falling from Grace]]''<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/> – film starring [[John Mellencamp]]<ref name=fallingfromgrace/>
* 2002: ''[[Johnson County War]]'' – TV miniseries<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
* 2005: ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' (with [[Diana Ossana]]) – Oscar-winning screenplay (adapted from the short story by [[E. Annie Proulx]])<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
* 2020: ''[[Joe Bell (film)|Joe Bell]]'' (with Diana Ossana)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Debruge |first1=Peter |title='Good Joe Bell' Review: Mark Wahlberg Stars in a Bad Movie About Bullying |url=https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/good-joe-bell-review-mark-wahlberg-1234768863/ |work=Variety |date=September 15, 2020}}</ref>
 
==Nonfiction==
* 1968: ''In A Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas''<ref name="NYT2017"/>
* 1974: "It's Always We Rambled" (essay)<ref name="Encyclopedia.com">{{cite web|title=McMurtry, Larry 1936– |work=Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series |publisher=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=March 25, 2021 |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/mcmurtry-larry-1936}}</ref>
* 1987: ''Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood ''<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
* 1999: ''Crazy Horse: A Life'' (biography)<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
* 1999: ''Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond''<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
* 2000: ''Roads: Driving America's Great Highways''<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
* 2001: ''[[Sacagawea's Nickname]]''—essays on the American West<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
* 2002: ''Paradise''—South-Pacific travelogue/memoir<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
* 2005: ''The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley & the Beginnings of Superstardom in America''<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
* 2005: ''Oh What A Slaughter! : Massacres in the American West: 1846—1890''<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
* 2008: ''Books: A Memoir''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Campbell |first1=James |title=Shelf-Possessed |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/review/Campbell-t.html |work=The New York Times |date=July 27, 2008}}</ref>
* 2009: ''Literary Life: A Second Memoir''<ref>{{cite news |title=McMurtry's 'Literary Life': Not Simple, But Practical |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121780230 |work=NPR |date=December 23, 2009 |language=en}}</ref>
* 2011: ''Hollywood: A Third Memoir''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=Jeff |title=Nonfiction review: 'Hollywood: A Third Memoir' by Larry McMurtry |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/books/2010/08/nonfiction_review_hollywood_a.html |work=The Oregonian |date=August 21, 2010 |language=en}}</ref>
* 2012: ''Custer''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pensky |first1=Nathan |title=Los Angeles Review of Books |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/little-big-legend-on-larry-mcmurtrys-custer/ |date=February 3, 2013}}</ref>
 
==Film==
[[File:Paul Newman and Melvyn Douglas Hud.jpg|thumb|[[Paul Newman]] (left) and [[Melvyn Douglas]] in  [[Hud (1963 film)|''Hud'' (1963)]]]]
* 1963: ''[[Hud (1963 film)|Hud]]'' (based on novel ''[[Horseman, Pass By]]'' from 1961)<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
* 1971: ''[[The Last Picture Show]]'' (co-wrote screenplay, based on novel from 1966)<ref name=lastpictureshow>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79950037 |via=worldcat.org |title=The last picture show |oclc=79950037 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
* 1974: ''[[Lovin' Molly]]'' (based on the novel ''[[Leaving Cheyenne]]'' from 1963)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/423149680 |via=worldcat.org |title=Lovin' Molly |oclc=423149680 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
* 1983: ''[[Terms of Endearment]]'' (based on novel from 1975)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/917295387 |via=worldcat.org |title=Terms of endearment : based on the novel by Larry McMurtry |oclc=917295387 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
* 1990: ''[[Texasville]]'' (based on novel from 1987)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/633123542 |via=worldcat.org |title=Texasville |oclc=633123542 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
* 1992: ''[[Falling from Grace (film)|Falling from Grace]]'' (wrote screenplay and story)<ref name=fallingfromgrace>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27150707 |via=worldcat.org |title=Falling from grace |oclc=27150707 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
* 1996: ''[[The Evening Star]]'' (based on novel from 1992)<ref name=eveningstar>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/422886574 |via=worldcat.org |title=The evening star |oclc=422886574 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
* 2005: ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' (co-wrote screenplay with [[Diana Ossana]] and adapted from the short story by [[E. Annie Proulx]])<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
* 2020: ''[[Joe Bell (film)|Joe Bell]]'' (co-wrote screenplay with Diana Ossana)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tiff.net/events/good-joe-bell |website=tiff.net |title=Good Joe Bell |first=Reinaldo Marcus |last=Green |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
 
==Television==
 
*1977: ''The American Film Institute's 10th Anniversary Special'' (writer)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/423447816 |via=worldcat.org |title=The American Film Institute's 10th anniversary special |oclc=423447816 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
*1988: ''[[The Murder of Mary Phagan]]'' (mini-series based on story)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/747040812 |via=worldcat.org |title=The murder of Mary Phagan |oclc=747040812 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/423224348 |via=worldcat.org |title=The murder of Mary Phagan |oclc=423224348 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
*1989: ''[[Lonesome Dove (miniseries)|Lonesome Dove]]'' (mini-series based on 1985 novel)<ref name=LonesomeDove1989>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/423140732 |via=worldcat.org |title=Lonesome Dove |oclc=423140732 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref><ref name=LonesomeDove2010withcreds>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/774391218 |via=worldcat.org |title=Lonesome Dove |oclc=774391218 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
*1990: ''Montana'' (original screenplay)<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
*1992: ''Memphis'' (teleplay)<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
*1993: ''[[Return to Lonesome Dove]]'' (based on the fictional universe of the 1985 novel)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29625796 |via=worldcat.org |title=Return to Lonesome Dove |oclc=29625796 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
*1994–1995: ''[[Lonesome Dove: The Series]]'' (based on the fictional universe of the 1985 novel)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/423140736 |via=worldcat.org |title=Lonesome Dove--the series. [1994, unidentified episode, no. 1] |oclc=423140736 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
*1995: ''[[Buffalo Girls (miniseries)|Buffalo Girls]]'' (based on 1990 novel)<ref name=buffalogirls>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/422719821 |via=worldcat.org |title=Buffalo girls |oclc=422719821 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
*1995: ''[[Streets of Laredo (miniseries)|Streets of Laredo]]'' (wrote teleplay, based on 1993 novel)<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
*1995–1996: ''Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years'' (based on the fictional world of the 1985 novel)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/423140737 |via=worldcat.org |title=Lonesome Dove : the outlaw years. [1995, unidentified episode], the return |oclc=423140737 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
*1996: ''[[Dead Man's Walk (miniseries)|Dead Man's Walk]]'' (wrote teleplay, based on 1995 novel)<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
*2002: ''Johnson County War'' (wrote teleplay)<ref name="Encyclopedia.com"/>
*2008: ''[[Comanche Moon (miniseries)|Comanche Moon]]'' (wrote teleplay, based on 1997 novel)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1145819768 |via=worldcat.org |title=Comanche moon |oclc=1145819768 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/909055472 |via=worldcat.org |title=Comanche moon |oclc=909055472 |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
 
==See also==
*[[Frank Q. Dobbs]]
 
== Provenance ==
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==References==
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[http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2006/2/2006_2_15.shtml Hugh Rawson] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829172935/http://americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2006/2/2006_2_15.shtml |date=August 29, 2008 }} "Screenings," ''American Heritage'', April/May 2006.
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{{Cite web|title=Larry McMurtry|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/national-humanities-medals/larry-mcmurtry|access-date=December 9, 2020|website=The National Endowment for the Humanities|language=en}}</ref>
 
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''Larry McMurtry: A Life'' by Tracy Daugherty, St. Martin's Press, 2023, page 201.  ISBN 978-1-250-28233-0.
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==Further reading==
* [[Tracy Daugherty|Daugherty, Tracy]]. ''Larry McMurtry: A Life''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2023.


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* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/133_wbc_archive_new/page3.shtml Germaine Greer discusses ''The Female Eunuch''] on the BBC ''[[World Book Club]]''
* [https://discover.library.unt.edu/catalog/b5049779 Larry McMurtry Collection], from the Rare Book & Texana Collections, [[University of North Texas]] website
* ''[https://archive.org/download/TheFemaleEunuchGermaineGreer/The%20Female%20Eunuch%20-%20Germaine%20Greer.mobi The Female Eunuch]'' (.mobi) at [[Archive.org]]
*McMurtry, Larry. "[http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/8844.html The Author Who Sold Books]", ''Washingtonian'', August 1, 2008.
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* [https://archive.today/20121215052319/http://alkek.library.txstate.edu/swwc/archives/writers/mcmurtry.html Larry McMurtry Papers 1984–1991], from the [[Texas State University-San Marcos]] website
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*[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21720 The Treasure Hunter] [[Michael Dirda]] review of McMurtry's ''Books: A Memoir'' from ''[[The New York Review of Books]]''
*[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00270/tsw-00270.html Larry McMurtry screenplays, 1979–1988 and undated, in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University]
*[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00133/rice-00133.html Guide to the Larry McMurtry and Diana Osanna Papers, 1890–2004, in the Woodson Research Center at Rice University]
*[https://westernamericanliterature.com/larry-mcmurtry-2/ Articles in ''Western American Literature'']


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The Female Eunuch is a 1970 book by Germaine Greer that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. Greer's thesis is that the "traditional" suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses women sexually, and that this devitalises them, rendering them eunuchs. The book was published in London in October 1970. It received a mixed reception, but by March 1971, it had nearly sold out its second printing. It has been translated into eleven languages.[1]

A sequel to The Female Eunuch, entitled The Whole Woman, was published in 1999.[2]

Summary

The book is a feminist analysis, written with a mixture of polemic and scholarly research. It was a key text of the feminist movement in the 1970s, broadly discussed and criticised by other feminists and the wider community, particularly through the author's high profile in the broadcast media. In sections titled "Body", "Soul", "Energy", "Love" and "Hate" Greer examines historical definitions of women's perception of self and uses a premise of imposed limitations to critique modern consumer societies, female "normality", and masculine shaping of stereotypes quoting, "The World has lost its soul, and I my sex."[3] In contrast to earlier feminist works, Greer uses humour, boldness, and coarse language to present a direct and candid description of female sexuality, much of this subject having remained undiscussed in English-speaking societies. Greer's irreverence towards Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis was inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex.[4] The work bridged academia and the contemporary arts in presenting the targets of the final section of the book, Revolution; it is in accord, and often associated with, a creative and revolutionary movement of the period.

Greer argues that men hate women, though the latter do not realise this and are taught to hate themselves.[5]

In her final title labelled Revolution, Greer argues that change had to come about via revolution, not evolution. Women should get to know and come to accept their own bodies, taste their own menstrual blood, and give up celibacy and monogamy. Yet they should not burn their bras. "Bras are a ludicrous invention", she wrote, "but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression."[6] Greer complains of the "genteel, middle-class ladies" who sit on women's rights committees and spend their time signing petitions to achieve equality. Greer expresses that to gain equality a woman must not be genteel but she should instead seek revolution. In a foreword added to the 21st anniversary edition, Greer references the loss of women's freedom with the "sudden death of communism" (1989) as catapult for women the world over for a sudden transition into consumer Western society wherein there is little to no protection for mothers and the disabled; here, there is no freedom to speak:

The freedom I pleaded for twenty years ago was freedom to be a person, with dignity, integrity, nobility, passion, pride that constitute personhood. Freedom to run, shout, talk loudly and sit with your knees apart. Freedom to know and love the earth and all that swims, lies, and crawls upon it ... most of the women in the world are still afraid, still hungry, still mute and loaded by religion with all kinds of fetters, masked, muzzled, mutilated and beaten.[7]

Reception

Camille Paglia is an ardent fan of The Female Eunuch, highlighting Greer's "brilliant and aggressive voice".[8]

In a 1971 interview, Greer said of her book that "The title is an indication of the problem. Women have somehow been separated from their libido, from their faculty of desire, from their sexuality. They've become suspicious about it. Like beasts, for example, who are castrated in farming in order to serve their master's ulterior motives—to be fattened or made docile—women have been cut off from their capacity for action. It's a process that sacrifices vigor for delicacy and succulence, and one that's got to be changed."[9] In January 1972 The Age's reviewer Thelma Forshaw described The Female Eunuch as "the orchestrated over-the-back-fence grizzle ... based on the curious fancy ... we were all men, and then some fiend castrated half of us and gave us a ghastly internal bookie's bag called a womb".[10] The newspaper declared that the review "has stirred up a considerable controversy".[11] According to the journalist Keith Dunstan, "[t]he reviews of [the book] were extremely mixed. The most famous was by [Forshaw] of The Age".[10] Dunstan contrasted this with a positive review by Sylvia Lawson of The Australian, "[it has] been greeted in Australia with some fantastically myopic, complacent and resentful printed comment ... [the book] is neither dogmatic nor complacent, neither strident nor paranoic ... [it is] ranging, exploratory and questioning".[10]

Laura Miller of Salon described the book as a "fitful, passionate, scattered text, not cohesive enough to qualify as a manifesto. It's all over the place, impulsive, and fatally naive—which is to say it is the quintessential product of its time."[12] The neuroscientist Simon LeVay wrote in Queer Science (1996) that subsequent scientific research contradicted Greer's claim that there are no differences between the brains of men and women.[13] The critic Camille Paglia called The Female Eunuch a "marvelous book", and described Greer's international tour to promote it as "the zenith of twentieth-century feminism".[14]

Notes

  1. Wilde, W. H. (1994). The Oxford companion to Australian Literature, 2nd. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-553381-X. “... the book became almost a sacred text for the international women's liberation movement of the 1970s, notwithstanding sporadic criticism of aspects of its ideology from some feminists.” 
  2. Greer. The Whole Woman Doubleday, Template:ISBN
  3. Greer, Germaine. The Female Eunuch. UK: Harper Perennial, 2006.
  4. Webster, Richard (2005). Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis. Oxford: The Orwell Press. ISBN 0-9515922-5-4. 
  5. Wallace 1997
  6. Foreword to the Paladin 21st Anniversary Edition, 2006.
  7. Greer, Germaine (1993). The Female Eunuch. London: Flamingo. ISBN 0-586-08055-4. 
  8. Germaine Greer: professional contrarian, nature lover, and feminist. Australian Financial Review (22 June 2018). Retrieved on 16 January 2023.
  9. Weinraub, Judith. Germaine Greer -- Opinions That May Shock the Faithful, The New York Times, 22 March 1971.
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 Dunstan, Keith (2004). “Germaine Greer”, Matthew Ricketson: The Best Australian Profiles. Melbourne, Vic: Black Inc. ISBN 9781863952934. 
  11. Letters to the Editor, The Age, Fairfax Media, 20 January 1972, p. 8.
  12. Laura Miller (1999-06-22). Germaine Greer. Brilliant Careers 1 of 2. Salon. “They didn't become megastars, but they became a librarian or something. I've heard women say again and again when the subject of Germaine comes up: 'Well, her book changed my life for the better.' And they'll be modest women living pretty ordinary lives, but better lives." Women entirely unlike Germaine Greer, the feminist who improved the world in spite of herself.”
  13. LeVay, Simon (1996). Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 139–143. ISBN 0-262-12199-9. 
  14. Paglia, Camille (2017). Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-375-42477-9. 

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