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Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island. He attended the University of
Tennessee in the early 1950s, and joined the U.S. Air Force, serving four years,
two of them stationed in Alaska. McCarthy then returned to the university, where
he published in the student literary magazine and won the Ingram-Merrill Award
for creative writing in 1959 and 1960. McCarthy next went to Chicago, where he
worked as an auto mechanic while writing his first novel, The Orchard Keeper,
published in 1965.
Outer
Dark was published in1968, followed by Child of God in 1973. From 1974 to 1975, McCarthy worked on the
screenplay for a PBS film called The Gardener's Son, which premiered in
1977.
In the late 1970s, McCarthy moved to Texas, and in 1979 published his fourth
novel, Suttree, a book that had occupied his writing life on and off for
twenty years. He published his
fifth novel, Blood Meridian, in 1985.
All the Pretty Horses, the first volume of The Border
Trilogy, was published in 1992. It won both the National Book Award and
the National Book Critics Circle Award and was later turned into a feature film.
The Stonemason, a play that McCarthy had written in the mid-1970s and
subsequently revised, was published in 1994. Soon thereafter,
the second volume of The Border Trilogy, The Crossing; was
published, followed by
Cities of the Plain in 1998.
McCarthy's next novel,
No Country for Old Men was published in 2005. This
was followed in 2006 by a novel in dramatic form, The Sunset Limited,
originally performed by Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago and published in
paperback by Vintage Books. The Road was published in hardcover in
September 2006.
This article relates to The Road. It first ran in the April 5, 2007 issue of BookBrowse Recommends.
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