Cormac McCarthy
McCarthy (1968)
Born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.(1933-07-20 ) July 20, 1933Providence, Rhode Island , U.S. Died June 13, 2023(2023-06-13) (aged 89)Santa Fe, New Mexico , U.S. Occupation Novelist, playwright, screenwriter Nationality American Genre Southern gothic ,western ,post-apocalyptic Notable works Suttree Blood Meridian All the Pretty Horses No Country for Old Men The Road Spouse Children 2 Signature
Cormac McCarthy (bornCharles Joseph McCarthy Jr. ;[ 1] novelist ,playwright , andscreenwriter .[ 2]
McCarthy's fifth novel,Blood Meridian Time [ 3]
As of 1991, none of McCarthy's novels had sold more than 5,000 hardcover copies, and "for most of his career, he did not even have an agent".[ 2] [ 2]
ForAll the Pretty Horses National Book Award andNational Book Critics Circle Award . His 2005 novelNo Country for Old Men movie of the same name , which won fourAcademy Awards , includingBest Picture .[ 4]
In 2007, McCarthy won thePulitzer Prize for Fiction .
McCarthy died on June 13, 2023 inSanta Fe, New Mexico at the age of 89.[ 5]
↑ Don Williams."Cormac McCarthy Crosses the Great Divide" .New Millennium Writings . Archived fromthe original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved2018-03-09 . ↑2.0 2.1 2.2 Woodward, Richard (May 17, 1998)."Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction" .The New York Times . Archived fromthe original on March 20, 2020. RetrievedJuly 14, 2017 . ↑ Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo (October 16, 2005)."All Time 100 Novels – The Complete List" .Time the original on September 13, 2008. RetrievedJune 3, 2008 . ↑ " . NPR. February 25, 2008. RetrievedJuly 15, 2017 .↑ Cormac McCarthy, spare and haunting novelist, dies at 89
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