McCarthy bagged numerous prizes over the decades, including a National Book Award and a Pulitzer. Some of his grim stories were controversial, winning him critics alongside the admirers.

McCarthy’s novel was turned into an indelible film by the Coen brothers, but get past that: The book is well worth revisiting. “No Country for Old Men” is a blood-dark meditation on the ...

Tributes have been paid to US Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, who has died at the age of 89. McCarthy's novels included The Road and No Country for Old Men, both of which were ...

His political career essentially ended in 1982 with an unsuccessful bid for his old Senate seat from Minnesota. Since then McCarthy has taught, lectured, and written books.

Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia and the American Southwest, died on June 12, 2023, at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. McCarthy’s fiction took a dark view of ...