Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.;[1] July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.
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| Born | Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. July 20, 1933 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Died | June 13, 2023 (aged 89) Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, playwright, screenwriter |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Southern gothic, western, post-apocalyptic |
| Notable works | Suttree (1979) Blood Meridian (1985) All the Pretty Horses (1992) No Country for Old Men (2005) The Road (2006) |
| Spouse | Lee Holleman (m. 1961; div. 1962) Annie DeLisle (m. 1967; div. 1981) Jennifer Winkley (m. 1997; div. 2006) |
| Children | 2 |
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McCarthy's fifth novel, Blood Meridian (1985), was on Time magazine's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language books published since 1923.[2]
For All the Pretty Horses (1992), he won both the U.S. National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. His 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was made as a 2007 movie of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.[3]
In 2007, McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
McCarthy died on June 13, 2023 in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the age of 89.[4]
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The Orchard Keeper (1965) was McCarthy's first novel.
First edition of McCarthy's tenth novel, The Road (2006), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
McCarthy wrote all of his fiction and correspondence with a single Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter between the early 1960s and 2009. At that time he replaced it with an identical model.
In the 1980s, McCarthy and Edward Abbey considered covertly releasing wolves into southern Arizona to restore their decimated population.
References
- ↑ Don Williams. Cormac McCarthy Crosses the Great Divide. New Millennium Writings. http://newmillenniumwritings.com/Issue14/CormacMcCarthy.html. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ↑ Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo (October 16, 2005). "All Time 100 Novels – The Complete List". Time. http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html. Retrieved June 3, 2008.
- ↑ 'No Country for Old Men' Wins Four Oscars. NPR. February 25, 2008. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19325798. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
- ↑ Cormac McCarthy, spare and haunting novelist, dies at 89
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