NEW YORK -- Ron McLarty wrote an 800-page novel at age 24. When publishers showed no interest, he wrote another and another. After the third, a novel called ''The Memory of Running," he finally gave ...

Warner Bros. will pay high six against seven figures for screen rights to the Ron McLarty novel “The Memory of Running.” Two weeks ago the book received a column endorsement from Stephen King, leading ...

Actor Ron McLarty, whose long struggle to publish a novel was greatly helped by a plug from Stephen King, has agreed to a two-book deal with Viking Penguin. King, in his featured column for ...

Veteran character actor Ron McLarty brings a strong performance to a rather weak entry in Baldacci's political thriller series featuring ex-Secret Service agents turned private investigators, Sean ...

Meet Smithy Ide, the hero (or, if you prefer, anti-hero) of Ron McLarty's first novel, The Memory of Running. Smithy is 43 years old, 279 pounds and single. He drinks too much and smokes too much.

In "The Memory of Running," professional actor and long-aspiring novelist Ron McLarty has invented a character so fully and elegantly defined that the book soars with originality and life. SF Gate ...

"Actors spend an awful lot of precious time sizing themselves up," says Jono Riley, the narrator of Ron McLarty's mystery/fictional memoir, and he speaks from experience. At 51, he has all the bitter ...

One evening while reading Ron McLarty’s “The Memory of Running,” I had to be called to dinner three times.Even then, I didn’t break out of my book trance until I heard the clink of forks scraping ...