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David Streitfeld is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the New York Times, where he writes about technology. He lives in the Bay Area with his family and too many books.
""A dazzling masterclass in the art of biography. The enigmatic McMurtry granted Streitfeld numerous interviews before his death. These sessions combined with primary documents Streitfeld unearthed in scattered archival collections provides Western Star with an astonishingly fresh perspective on one of America's most beloved writers. An awesome reappraisal of McMurtry in all of his genius, contradictions, foibles and enduring charms.""--Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University and New York Times bestselling author of Cronkite ""Larry McMurtry is one of the major American writers of the past fifty years, and David Streitfeld captures his spirit. Western Star demystifies the man who reshaped our vision of the West. In this engaging biography, Streitfeld brings both a journalist's ear for a good story and nose for detecting a lie, making an important contribution to American letters.""--Rebecca Romney, author of Jane Austen's Bookshelf ""David Streitfeld's portrait of Larry McMurtry lets us slide into a booth at the Dairy Queen alongside one of the most alluring and most mysterious of our old masters, bringing us as close as we are ever likely to get to a man whose range and depth of achievement has few parallels in American letters.""--Benjamin Moser, author of the Pulitzer-winning Sontag: Her Life and Work
