Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island. He attended the University of Tennessee and served the US Air Force. McCarthy then returned to Tennessee before moving to Chicago, where he worked as an auto mechanic while writing his first novel, The Orchard Keeper.
McCarthy followed his debut with Outer Dark in 1968 and then worked on Child Of God, which was published in 1973. Other work include the screenplay for a PBS film called The Gardener's Son, which premiered in 1977 and, Suttee, a book that had occupied his writing life on and off for twenty years. Blood Meridian followed in 1985 with All The Pretty Horses, the first volume of The Border Triology, in 1992.
McCarthy's No Country For Old Men was published in 2005 and The Sunset Limited in 2006 which was originally performed by Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago and published in paperback by Vintage Books. McCarthy's most recent novel, The Road, published in 2006 won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize.
McCarthy's novels, All The Pretty Horses, No Country For Old Men, The Road, and Child Of God have all been made into major motion pictures. No Country For Old Men won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and The Sunset Limited aired on HBO in 2011.
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