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Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American author who wrote twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western, postapocalyptic, and Southern Gothic genres. His works often include graphic depictions of violence, and his writing style is ...
He has two sons: Cullen McCarthy, born in 1962 to his first wife Lee Holleman, and John Francis McCarthy, born in 1999 to third wife, Jennifer Winkley. He divorced his second wife, Annie DeLisle ...
American author, known for novels ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’, died at his home in New Mexico
Stephen King and others honor author Cormac McCarthy, who died of natural causes on Tuesday at age 89.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy died today of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was eighty-nine years old. Posted by Cormac McCarthy on Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Cormac is a masculine given name in the Irish and English languages. The name is ancient in the Irish language [ 1 ] and is also seen in the rendered Old Norse as Kormákr . Mac is Irish for "son", and can be used as either a prefix or a suffix.
The dispossession of the self plays an important role in the book's final chapter, in which sacramental theology moves from the background to the foreground of Potts's argument, and he relies on the repetition of images of Eucharist and baptism in The Road to signal the centrality of sacraments to McCarthy's project in the novel.
Cormac McCarthy, whose nihilistic and violent tales of the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds led to awards, movie adaptations and sleepless nights for his enthralled and appalled ...