Which novel by Larry McMurtry won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1986?

Which novel by Larry McMurtry won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1986? The answer is Lonesome Dove.

Published in 1985, Lonesome Dove is an epic Western centered on retired Texas Rangers Augustus “Gus” McCrae and Woodrow F. Call. They lead a cattle drive from Texas to Montana during the waning days of the American frontier, while the novel explores friendship, aging, violence, love, death, and the gap between myth and reality.

McMurtry originally developed the project as a screenplay with director Peter Bogdanovich. After Hollywood interest failed to produce a film, he reshaped the material as a novel. The title was inspired by the name of a Baptist church near Fort Worth.

The book won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and later became the basis for a celebrated 1989 television miniseries starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones. McMurtry’s other listed titles are separate novels, not the Pulitzer winner.