Larry McMurtry, the famed Texas novelist, screenwriter and bookseller, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book "Lonesome Dove," at his bookstore, Booked Up No. 1. The Wild West provides the backdrop for ...

Several of my recent columns have pointed out that life today has many resemblances to the long ago past. The following is about the opposite, that some things have mostly come to an end — or at least ...

Cormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday at 89, was a great American novelist who tackled what he regarded as great American themes: history, violence, the nature of evil, the myth of the West. His 12 ...

Fred Grove had a unique perspective on the American West. Part Lakota Sioux, Osage, French and English, and raised on an Oklahoma ranch, Grove had a firsthand understanding of the cowboy-and-Indian ...

From mid-20th-century classic To Kill a Mocking Bird to modern classics like A Visit From the Goon Squad, these Pulitzer Prize-winning novels are still perfect years after they won literature's big ...