Cormac McCarthy, Author of The Road, Has Died at 89

Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of The Road, No Country for Old Men, Blood Meridian, and more, has died astatine the property of 89. He passed distant from earthy causes successful his Sante Fe home, according to his publisher, Knopf.

McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize successful 2007 for his bleak dystopian novel, The Road. Many of his novels were adapted into movies, including the 2007 Coen brothers’ movie No Country for Old Men, which won the Oscar for champion picture, among different awards.

His archetypal novel, The Orchard Keeper, was published successful 1965, and his astir caller enactment was his The Passenger duology, which came retired successful 2022.

McCarthy is survived by his 2 sons, Cullen and John, who helped animate The Road. In an interrogation with Oprah Winfrey, helium shared that helium began imagining the publication portion watching his young lad sleep:

“There was thing moving, but I could perceive the trains going through, and that precise lonesome sound. I conscionable had this representation of what this municipality mightiness look similar successful 50 oregon 100 years. I conscionable had this representation of these fires up connected the elevation and everything being laid waste, and I thought a batch astir my small boy.”

The Road is dedicated to John.

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