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.
Throughout his career, he wrote multiple novels, screenplays and short stories spanning the western and post-apocalyptic genres and was known for his desire for privacy and reportedly did not like to discuss writing.
His first novel The Orchard Keeper was published in 1965 and he went on to author several more books throughout the 1970s, including 1979’s Suttree.
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The Blood Meridian author found true acclaim in 1992 with All The Pretty Horses, the first volume of The Border Trilogy, which became a New York Times bestseller.
No Country For Old Men, later adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Javier Bardem, was published in 2005. The Road, also adapted into a film, was published a year later and went on to win the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
After McCarthy’s death, tributes were paid by many, including renowned US horror author Stephen King who wrote: "Cormac McCarthy, maybe the greatest American novelist of my time, has passed away at 89. He was full of years and created a fine body of work, but I still mourn his passing."
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