The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist was 89.
CELEBRATED AUTHOR CORMAC McCarthy, an unflinching chronicler of America’s bleak frontiers and grim underbelly, has died aged 89, his publisher said.
McCarthy wrote his first novel, “The Orchard Keeper,” while working at a car parts shop in Chicago in the 1960s — it was published by Random House. McCarthy’s focus on the dark contours of humanity remained the through line of his work, gaining him an ardent fan base and critical success. ‘The Road’ In 1981, 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 – a time that had a profound impact on his work.Set in Texas and Mexico during the 1840s, it was a post-apocalyptic Western.
Hollywood took notice, and the film version was released in 2000, starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz.
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