Born 93 years ago today, on July 20, 1933, in Providence, R.I., Cormac McCarthy became one of the most distinctive voices in American fiction.
He wrote violent, beautiful books set in the rural South and the desert Southwest, and he did it while ignoring most of the rules of punctuation. McCarthy famously refused to use quotation marks. He also skipped semicolons and most other marks, believing a clean page and clear prose made the dialogue easier to follow. The style became his signature, a wall of unbroken text that pulled readers straight into the story.
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His 2006 novel The Road, a bleak story of a father and son crossing a ruined America, won the Pulitzer Prize and was later adapted into a film starring Viggo Mortensen. His 2005 novel No Country for Old Men became a Coen brothers film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Earlier work like Blood Meridian built his reputation as a writer of stark, unflinching prose.
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A Late-Career Surge
McCarthy spent decades as a critics' favorite before wider fame arrived. Famously private, he gave almost no interviews for decades, and his 2007 sit-down with Oprah Winfrey was his first on television. The Road and the No Country adaptation turned him into a household name in his 70s, and he kept writing into his late 80s, publishing two linked novels in 2022. He died in June 2023 at 89. Ninety-three years after his birth, his stark, violent novels still rank among the most gripping dark fiction ever written.
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