from North Texas State University in 1958 and an M.A. from Rice University in 1960. He married Josephine Ballard on 15 July 1959; they divorced in 1966. He has one son, James Lawrence. A Stegner Fellowship enabled McMurtry to do further graduate work at Stanford University after which he returned to Texas to teach creative writing at Rice from 1963 to 1969, with time off for a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964. In 1969 McMurtry left Texas, moving to northern Virginia, where he lived for most of the 1970s. During the 1980s McMurtry lived in an apartment over his Georgetown book store and traveled frequently, at one point maintaining apartments in California and Arizona as well as in Washington. But he kept the family ranch as a permanent address even during the Washington years, and at the end of the decade he moved back to his hometown of Archer City, Texas. The move followed the success of
Lonesome Dove, which was honored not only by the Pulitzer Prize but by "Larry McMurtry Day" in Archer City in 1986.
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