Cormac McCarthy

Rick Wallach (University of Miami)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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Born 20 Jul 1933
Activity 1965-ongoing

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Born in United States
Active in United States

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Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist, playwright and screenwriter. He is the author of two published short stories, ten novels, two plays and one produced screenplay. Several works, including the unproduced screenplay Whales and Men, and one long novel, The Passenger, remain unpublished. He is best known for his dark, violent novels, which are set either in his childhood region of Appalachia or in the border lands of the southwestern United States and Mexico, and most recently for his Pulitzer Prize-winning apocalyptic novel The Road (2006). His vision of human nature and destiny is relentlessly pessimistic. Even so, his characters occasionally redeem themselves, or are redeemed to some extent, by gestures o…

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Citation: Wallach, Rick. "Cormac McCarthy". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 June 2012 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3026, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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