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Cormac McCarthy


Born
in Providence, Rhode Island, The United States
July 20, 1933

Died
June 13, 2023

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Genre
Fiction

Influences
William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beck ...more


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 and 2005, and he placed joint runner-up for a similar title in a poll taken in 2006 by The New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years. Literary critic Harold Bloom named him one of the four major American novelists of his ...more

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Average rating: 4.03 · 1,732,391 ratings · 130,575 reviews · 42 distinct works • Similar authors
The Road
3.99 avg rating — 947,050 ratings — published 2006 — 372 editions
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No Country for Old Men
4.16 avg rating — 214,732 ratings — published 2005 — 175 editions
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Blood Meridian, or, the Eve...
4.16 avg rating — 181,421 ratings — published 1985 — 187 editions
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All the Pretty Horses (The ...
4.04 avg rating — 131,238 ratings — published 1992 — 82 editions
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Child of God
3.83 avg rating — 49,126 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions
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The Crossing (The Border Tr...
4.16 avg rating — 42,468 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions
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Cities of the Plain (The Bo...
4.13 avg rating — 28,592 ratings — published 1998 — 82 editions
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The Passenger (The Passenge...
3.58 avg rating — 32,656 ratings — published 2022 — 53 editions
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Suttree
4.20 avg rating — 25,136 ratings — published 1979 — 77 editions
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Outer Dark
3.89 avg rating — 22,230 ratings — published 1968 — 9 editions
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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
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“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
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“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
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