Cormac McCarthy, 'No Country for Old Men' Author, Dies at 89

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Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Cormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, is known for the dark and often merciless stories depicted in any of the dozen novels he wrote throughout his life.

Carmel Dagan Cormac McCarthy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who endured decades of obscurity and poverty before film versions of “All the Pretty Horses,” “No Country for Old Men” and “The Road” brought him a wide readership and financial security, died Tuesday in Santa Fe, N.M. His publisher, Penguin Random House, said his son John McCarthy announced his death from natural causes. He was 89.Extremely reclusive, McCarthy shunned publicity so effectively that one critic observed, “He wasn’t even famous for it.” But Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2008 adaptation of 2005 novel “No Country for Old Men” put him momentarily in the limelight; the crime thriller, which starred Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin, won Oscars for best picture, director, adapted screenplay and supporting actor.

Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian” and “All the Pretty Horses,” died Tuesday. He was 89.

and dark American Westerns such ashas died at 89, his publisher, Knopf, said. Knopf said in a statement that McCarthy's son confirmed that he died on Tuesday of natural causes at his home in Sante Fe, New Mexico. McCarthy gained prominence for his unflinching explorations of some of the darkest corners of the American landscape. He won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his 1992 novel McCarthy's 2006 novel about a father and son's journey of survival through an America decimated by an unspecified event, made readers confront extreme evil and resilient hope, and earned him the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, McCarthy was raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, and briefly attended the University of Tennessee, where he received the Ingram-Merrill Award for creative writing. McCarthy's decades-long career took off in 1965 with his first novel, a story of murder and isolation set in a small Appalachian community.

Award-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy has died aged 89. Best known for his novels including The Road and No Country For Old Men, McCarthy died at home on Tuesday (June 13) of natural causes.

“The Road,” has died. The fiction and drama writer was 89.McCarthy died Tuesday of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his son, John, confirmed to The Post.

Cormac McCarthy, considered to be one of the greatest authors of the past half-century, has died at his home in Santa Fe at the age of 89, his publisher Knopf announced. Born in Rhode Island and raised in Tennessee, McCarthy used his upbringing in the American South as the primary influence for his literary works, which were often violent, bleak and filled with morally ambiguous characters.

Cormac McCarthy, generally considered one of America’s greatest living authors, has died. McCarthy is best known for books such as Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West, The Road — which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction — and No Country For Old Men — which was adapted into the Coen brothers Oscar-winning film. He was 89.

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