Cormac McCarthy, Novelist Who Explored an Apocalyptic American West, Dead at 89

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Cormac McCarthy, the celebrated novelist known for his stunning, apocalyptic visions of the American West, died Tuesday, June 13. He was 89.

McCarthy’s publisher, Penguin Random House, confirmed his death in a statement, according to The Washington Post. A cause of death was not given.

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McCarthy’s work was often bleak and brutal, his style of writing blunt and ceaseless with little use for punctuation. He published 12 novels over the course of his career, and is best known for Blood Meridian and The Border Trilogy (released over the course of the Nineties), as well as his 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road. The Coen Brothers also famously adapted McCarthy’s 2005 novel, No Country for Old Men, into a 2007 film, which won the Oscar for Best Picture.

While McCarthy remained quiet in the 16 years after The Road, he returned in full force last year, publishing what have now become his last two novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

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