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He met his first wife, Jo Ballard Scott[{{Cite web |title=Jo Scott McMurtry: The Hidden Force Behind One of America's Greatest Writers - Xmas Magazine |url=https://xmasmagazine.com/jo-scott-mcmurtry/ |access-date=2026-03-22 |archive=https://web.archive.org/web/20260306180111/https://xmasmagazine.com/jo-scott-mcmurtry/ | archivedate= 6 Mar 2026 |language=en-US}}], at a party during his senior year of college at North Texas State University, and they married in 1959.[{{Cite book |last=Daugherty |first=Tracy |title=Larry McMurtry: A life |date=2023 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-1-250-28233-0 |edition=1st |location=New York}}]{{rp|59}} They had one son, James McMurtry. James and his own son, Curtis McMurtry, are singer/songwriters and guitarists.[{{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}}] |
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He met his first wife, Jo Ballard Scott[{{Cite web |title=Jo Scott McMurtry: The Hidden Force Behind One of America's Greatest Writers - Xmas Magazine |url=https://xmasmagazine.com/jo-scott-mcmurtry/ |access-date=2026-03-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260306180111/https://xmasmagazine.com/jo-scott-mcmurtry/ | archivedate= 6 Mar 2026 |language=en-US}}], at a party during his senior year of college at North Texas State University, and they married in 1959.[{{Cite book |last=Daugherty |first=Tracy |title=Larry McMurtry: A life |date=2023 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-1-250-28233-0 |edition=1st |location=New York}}]{{rp|59}} They had one son, James McMurtry. James and his own son, Curtis McMurtry, are singer/songwriters and guitarists.[{{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}}] |
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McMurtry married Norma Faye Kesey, the widow of [[Ken Kesey]], on April 29, 2011, in a civil ceremony in Archer City.[{{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}}] He died on March 25, 2021, at his home in Tucson, Arizona. He was 84 years old.[{{Cite news |last=Garner |first=Dwight |date=2021-03-26 |title=Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/books/larry-mcmurtry-dead.html |access-date=2025-02-12 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}] |
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McMurtry married Norma Faye Kesey, the widow of [[Ken Kesey]], on April 29, 2011, in a civil ceremony in Archer City.[{{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}}] He died on March 25, 2021, at his home in Tucson, Arizona. He was 84 years old.[{{Cite news |last=Garner |first=Dwight |date=2021-03-26 |title=Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/books/larry-mcmurtry-dead.html |access-date=2025-02-12 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}] |
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