Cormac McCarthy – arguably the greatest American writer since Ernest Hemingway or William Faulkner – dies of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Rest in peace.
NEW YORK, USA – 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 readers, died on Tuesday, June 13, at the age of 89.
But McCarthy was never seen on the red carpet. An intensely private man, he almost never gave interviews. He granted a rare exception for Oprah Winfrey in 2007, telling her: “I don’t think are good for your head. If you spend a lot of time thinking about how to write a book, you probably shouldn’t be thinking about it, you probably should be doing it.”
His father was a lawyer and he was brought up in Tennessee in relative comfort. But middle America was not for him. His first book “The Orchard Keeper,” set in rural Tennessee and published in 1965, landed with Faulkner’s last editor, who recognized the young writer’s potential. But despite positive reviews – and some shocked reaction – for this and other early works like “Child of God” and “Outer Dark,” commercial success eluded McCarthy and he scraped by on writers’ grants.
The trilogy was followed by “No Country for Old Men,” a deeply disturbing and yet riveting Western crime novel about a drug deal gone wrong, quickly adapted into a movie by Joel and Ethan Coen that won the 2007 best picture Oscar.
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