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Cormac McCarthy


Born
in Providence, Rhode Island, The United States
July 20, 1933

Died
June 13, 2023

Genre
Fiction

Influences
William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beck ...more


Cormac McCarthy was a highly acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter celebrated for his distinctive literary style, philosophical depth, and exploration of violence, morality, and the human condition. His writing, often characterized by sparse punctuation and lyrical, biblical language, delved into the primal forces that shape human behavior, set against the haunting landscapes of the American South and Southwest.
McCarthy’s early novels, including The Orchard Keeper and Outer Dark, established him as a powerful voice in Southern Gothic literature, while Blood Meridian (1985) is frequently cited as his magnum opus—a brutal, visionary epic about violence and manifest destiny in the American West. In the 1990s, his "Border Trilogy"—All th ...more

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Average rating: 4.03 · 1,943,275 ratings · 154,419 reviews · 49 distinct works • Similar authors
The Road
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No Country for Old Men
4.17 avg rating — 246,869 ratings — published 2005 — 176 editions
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Blood Meridian, or, the Eve...
4.15 avg rating — 219,775 ratings — published 1985
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All the Pretty Horses (The ...
4.06 avg rating — 146,303 ratings — published 1992 — 204 editions
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Child of God
3.82 avg rating — 55,252 ratings — published 1973 — 85 editions
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The Crossing (The Border Tr...
4.17 avg rating — 47,409 ratings — published 1994 — 53 editions
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The Passenger (The Passenge...
3.57 avg rating — 37,537 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions
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Cities of the Plain (The Bo...
4.14 avg rating — 31,914 ratings — published 1998 — 95 editions
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Suttree
4.21 avg rating — 28,190 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions
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Outer Dark
3.89 avg rating — 25,603 ratings — published 1968 — 59 editions
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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
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“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
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“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
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