Fellow American author Stephen King has remembered McCarthy as 'maybe the greatest American novelist of my time'.
abc.net.au/news/american-author-cormac-mccarthy-dies-at-age-89/102476372Cormac McCarthy — the celebrated American author of The Road and No Country For Old Men — has died at age 89.He is best known for his novels The Road, No Country for Old Men and Blood MeridianMcCarthy's death was announced by his publisher Penguin Random House after confirmation from his son John McCarthy.
His canon spans 12 novels, two plays, five screenplays and three short stories, many of which are violent tales of the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds. McCarthy was said to be a very private man, rarely appearing in media interviews or on the red carpet. He also won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road, which describes a father and son's arduous journey as they struggle to survive in the US after the apocalypse.
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