RaveThe Wall Street JournalA very readable and even impressive biography, Tracy Daugherty discusses all of McMurtry’s books with both authority and affection. Mr. Daugherty is also absorbing when he writes about McMurtry’s personal life and his nonwriting literary life, which were melded into one ... Mr. Daugherty is equally good recounting McMurtry’s time in California as a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and his career as a rare-book dealer in Washington, D.C.
David Grann
MixedThe Wall Street JournalReading Mr. Grann’s writing has long given the same pleasure as reading a stylish, finely crafted detective story ... Hale was eventually convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Yet Mr. Grann seems barely interested in Hale as a character, giving a few details of his life in an early chapter and then neglecting any quotes or letters or dramatic scenes that might have been revealing ... But for all the murders and plots, for all the good pursuing evil, and for all the wealth that lured the greedy, Killers of the Flower Moon isn’t dramatic at all ... While not dramatic, Killers of the Flower Moon is something rather deep and perplexing and not easily forgotten.
