Pretty Boy Floyd is a 1994 American novel by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, a fictionalized biography of the titular gangster which originally began as a film script.[1]
McMurtry was friends with Ossana, and recuperated from his heart surgery in 1991 at her house. She helped him edit the novel Streets of Loredo then when Warner Bros approached him to write a script about Pretty Boy Floyd he agreed if Ossana would help him. Once they wrote the script they then wrote the novel together. The movie was never made but the novel was published. The novel included several ficitious characters.[2]
Kirkus called it "A charming, albeit predictable, story that reads like a B-movie."[3]
References
edit- ^ Combs, Casey (December 11, 1994). "An Unlikely Team--Law Clerk and Novelist--Write 'Pretty Boy Floyd' : Books: Diana Ossana was an unknown, a woman who had done a lot of writing but never had anything published. Larry McMurtry is one of America's most successful writers". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press.
- ^ "An unlikely pairing". The Post-Crescent. 4 December 1994. p. 28.
- ^ Review of book at Kirkus