McCarthy entered the University of Tennessee in 1951-1952 and was a liberal arts major. His father was a successful lawyer for the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1934 to 1967. In Knoxville, he attended Knoxville Catholic High School. He is the third of six children, with three sisters and two brothers. McCarthy was born in Providence, Rhode Island on July 20, 1933, and moved with his family to Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1937. He is frequently compared by modern reviewers to William Faulkner. In 2010 the London Times ranked The Road no.1 on its list of the 100 best fiction and non-fiction books of the past 10 years. Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth. His previous novel, Blood Meridian, (1985) was among Time's poll of the best English-language books published between 19 and he placed joint runner-up in a poll taken in 2006 by the New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years. He received a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for his 1992 novel, All the Pretty Horses. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road, and his 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

He has also written plays and screenplays. He has written ten novels, ranging from the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres. Currently-lives in Tesuque, New Mexico (Santa Fe area)Ĭormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy) is an American novelist and playwright.Memorial Prize UK, 2006 Pulitzer Prize, 2007 for The Road. National Book Critics Circle Award, 1992 James Tait Black MacArthur Fellowship, 1981 National Book Award, 1992

Of Arts and Letters, 1965 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1969 Prize, 1965 Traveling Fellowship from American Academy Awards- Ingram-Merrill Aware, 19 Faulkner.

Education-University of Tennessee, US Air Force.When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law–in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell–can contain.Īs Moss tries to evade his pursuers–in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives–McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. ( From the publisher.) A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy.

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