The word “guru” fits George Getschow, a Dallas-based former Wall Street Journal editor, member of the Texas Institute of Letters, and director of the Archer City Writers Workshop. For years, George has encouraged and cajoled young journalists (and older ones) and other Texas writers of all types into writing their first books. But Getshow too had a mentor: Larry McMurtry.
At home, Getchow keeps a bookshelf stuffed full of the complete works of McMurtry, a legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning author who produced dozens of novels and nonfiction books, some of which became miniseries and movies like Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and Terms of Endearment, before his death in 2021.
