And that’s what they’ll do in a sale held by San Antonio–based Vogt Auction that opens on May 29. As an enthusiast of literary rarities himself-he owned the iconic Booked Up antiquarian bookstore in Archer City, recently purchased by Chip Gaines-it’s fitting that his treasures should pass into the hands of collectors. When McMurtry died in 2021, he left an impressive estate. Despite the wide acclaim that made him welcome in any corner of the world, his 84 years ended in 2021 in the same place they began-Archer City, Texas, a small town of fewer than two thousand roughly halfway between Dallas and Lubbock. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove and an Academy Award for the Brokeback Mountain screenplay (which he shared with frequent collaborator Diana Ossana).
If you read Texas Monthly, it’s likely he needs no introduction, but we’ll offer a brief one anyway: he wrote Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, The Evening Star, and Horseman, Pass By (which was made into the film Hud, starring Paul Newman), among dozens of others, during his five-decade career. Larry McMurtry was one of the definitive storytellers of twentieth-century Texas.
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