![]() ![]() They share one grandchild, Curtis McMurtry, who, like his dad, writes and sings songs. ![]() She and McMurtry are the parents of the Austin-based singer-songwriter James McMurtry, who was born in Fort Worth. McMurtry’s first marriage, to Jo Scott McMurtry, lasted from 1959 to 1966, during which Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters showed up at the couple’s home in Houston, a scene documented in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, published in 1968. McMurtry married Kesey’s widow, Faye, in 2011. There, he met budding novelist Ken Kesey, who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest during the fellowship and would become a longtime friend. He wrote Horseman, Pass By while completing a Wallace Stegner fellowship at Stanford University. He also worked briefly as an English professor at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. ![]() He later returned to Rice to earn a master’s degree in literature. After graduating from Archer City High, McMurtry earned a bachelor’s degree at North Texas State University (now UNT) after discovering what he called his mathematical ineptitude at Rice University in Houston. ![]()
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