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Cormac McCarthy - Wikipedia
- Cormac McCarthy (1933–2023) was a renowned American novelist whose works span Western, post-apocalyptic, and southern Gothic genres.
- His breakout public recognition came after All the Pretty Horses (1992) won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
- The Road (2006) earned the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, marking a major critical achievement later in his career.
- McCarthy employed a distinctive sparse punctuation style, often avoiding semicolons and dialogue quotation marks.
- He worked with a single Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter for decades, a ritual central to his writing process.
- His marriage to Anne DeLisle and later relationship with Augusta Britt influenced his later work in Suttree and beyond.
- Blood Meridian is often cited as his magnum opus and has been praised by Harold Bloom as one of the greatest novels since Faulkner.
- McCarthy engaged with science and philosophy communities, including a long association with the Santa Fe Institute.
- The late works The Passenger and Stella Maris appeared in 2022, marking his final published novels.
- McCarthy's legacy includes a widespread critical reevaluation, with Bloom and others praising his mastery and influence.
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