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New Delhi: Pulitzer-Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy breathed his last on Tuesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was 89 years old. In his long-lasting career, McCarthy wrote 12 novels including ‘No Land for Old’, ‘All the Pretty’, ‘The Road’, etc., 2 long plays and 5 screenplays and 3 short stories.
McCarthy and his third wife, Winkley, divorced in 20016, whom he married in the late 1990s.
His publisher Alfred A. Knopf, a Penguin Random House imprint, announced McCarthy’s death from natural causes.
In the official statement, Penguin Random House CEO Nihar Malviya said, “”For 60 years, he demonstrated an unwavering dedication to his craft and to exploring the infinite possibilities and power of the written word. Millions of readers around the world found her characters, her mythological themes and intimate emotional truths etched on every page, in spectacular novels that will remain both timely and timeless for generations to come.
Cormac McCarthy Childhood
Charles Joseph McCarthy was born on July 20, 1933, in Providence, Rhode Island, US. His family was Irish Catholic. He studied physics and engineering. He developed a passion for writing in his childhood, which he later took up as a full-fledged career later in his life.
Cormac McCarthy Writing Career
Cormac McCarthy gained fame later in his life with his writing career. His first novel ‘The Orchard Keeper’ was published in 1965 by Random House. The novel won the 1996 William Faulkner Foundation Award for remarkable work and vivid use of imagery.
Down the line, McCarthy published several screenplays including ‘The Gardener’s Son, A Semi-Autobiographical Stree’.
He was later awarded the MacArthur Fellowship in 1981.
Several of his novels were adapted into films, including The Road, The No Land for Men, Child of God, All the Pretty Horses, etc.
Cormac McCarthy Peak
In 1992, McCarthy gained well-deserved fame with her sixth novel, All the Pretty Horses. It also won the National Book Award. The novel was a bestselling award winner and was followed by The Crossing (1994) and Cities of the Plain (1998) to form The Border Trilogy.
Later, in 2005, his No Country for Old Men received widespread acclaim, first as a screenplay and then as a novel.
