Cormac McCarthy was an American novelist and playwright. He wrote twelve novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres and also wrote plays and screenplays. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for
The Road, and his 2005 novel
No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. His earlier
Blood Meridian (1985) was among
Time Magazine's poll of 100 best English-language books published between 1925 an…
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