Larry L. King, 1929-2012

LARRY L. KING (NOT LARRY KING) HAS DIED: Larry L. King, a journalist, essayist and playwright, who left Texas as a young man but never abandoned it in his work — turning out profiles of politicians, articles on the flaws and foibles of American

Hollywood Life reports that journalist, essayist and playwright Larry L. King died from emphysema at the age of 83 according to his wife, Barbara Blaine. Larry wrote for Harper's Bazaar, Playboy and Texas Monthly in his

There's a man who's got the broad shoulders and the solid facial hair to really carry a starting staff I once visited Minneapolis at Christmastime. It was gorgeous and warm, nothing like everybody said, including my wife, who said, "Larry, this is

And Other Dirty Stories, and wrote that its author, a Texas Tech graduate-turned-journalist-turned-Congressional aide named Larry L. King, was a “social necessity.” He compared King to Honoré de Balzac, to H. L. Mencken

Larry L. King, a popular author who wrote the Broadway musical “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," has died. He was 83. King was from Texas and often critiqued rural American culture in Playboy, Harper's, Texas Monthly and other publications, the