Cormac McCarthy Dies: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Of ‘No County For Old Men,’ ‘The Road’ Was 89
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Cormac McCarthy, generally considered one of America’s greatest living authors, has died. His death was confirmed by his son, John McCarthy. He was 89.
McCarthy is best known for books such as Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West; The Road, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and No Country For Old Men, which was adapted into the Coen Brothers’ Oscar-winning film. His other published works include The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of Dark, Suttree, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain. All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country were adapted for film by Billy Bob Thornton, John Hillcoat and Joel and Ethan Coen, respectively.
His books have been published in 48 territories across the globe, winning awards including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Coens’ No Country is perhaps the most iconic adaptation of his work for film and won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, upon its release in 2007.
Notoriously press-shy, McCarthy granted few interviews. In 1992 he told The New York Times, “Of all the subjects I’m interested in, it would be extremely difficult to find one I wasn’t. Writing is way, way down at the bottom of the list.”
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