p>The writer of “The Road and No Country for Old Men” died Tuesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his publisher said.
McCarthy has won major literary awards and received international acclaim for a dozen novels for your career. a nearly sixty-year career.
Considered a demanding but honest writer, his clinical descriptions of America's inner anguish and wilderness won him a fiercely loyal following.
Born into a lawyer's family. father, the McCarthy family moved to Tennessee when he was four years old.
His real name was Charles, but he changed it to Cormac in honor of the Irish king, as he decided not to graduate from university and instead focus on writing.
In 2008, a film adaptation of his novel No Country for Old Men was released. . The male directors Joel and Ethan Coen have won four Oscars, including one for Spanish actor Javier Bardem.
McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize a year earlier for The Road, a story about a father and son on their way in a post-apocalyptic landscape.
McCarthy wrote his first novel, The Garden Keeper, while working at an auto parts store in Chicago in the 1960s.
Rough and brutal, the book is an ode to the wild environment of the mountains of Tennessee, the southern US state where McCarthy grew up.
Mr. McCarthy's focus on the dark contours of humanity has remained a running thread in his work, earning him a rabid following and critical success.
The acclaimed author has received several scholarships, including one from the Rockefeller Foundation.
In 1968, he published Outer Dark, a story about the aftermath of an incestuous relationship.
His next book, Child of God, published in 1973, is about a man who who heads to Appalachia to live apart from society. It contains descriptions of murder and necrophilia.
In 1981, Mr. McCarthy received one of the MacArthur Foundation's so-called genius grants, and he spent the next part of his life living in El Paso, Texas, on the border with Mexico is a time that had a profound effect on his work.
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