Cormac McCarthy Biography:

Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in 1933 and spent most of his childhood near Knoxville, Tennessee. He served in the U.S. Air Force and later studied at the University of Tennessee. In 1976 he moved to El Paso, Texas, where he lives today.

McCarthy's fiction parallels his movement from the Southeast to the West--the first four novels being set in Tennessee, the last three in the Southwest and Mexico.

The Orchard Keeper (1965) won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed by Outer Dark (1968), Child of God (1973), Suttree (1979), Blood Meridian (1985), and All the Pretty Horses (1992), which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award for fiction in 1992.

All the Pretty Horses was the first book in McCarthy's Border Trilogy, which also included The Crossing (1994) and Cities of the Plain (1998), and which The NY Times called the fifth most important work of American fiction in the last twenty-five years.

McCarthy's 2005 novel No Country for Old Men (2005) is a 2007 film, directed by the Coen Brothers, and The Road (2006) was chosen for Oprah's Book Club in March 2007.

Dates:

(1933-)

Nationality:

American

Notable Work:

The Road (2006)

Cormac McCarthy's Web Site:

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