Cormac McCarthy

Charles McCarthy, who took the first name Cormac, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1933, into an Irish Catholic family whose father was a lawyer for the Tennessee Valley Authority; he left the University of Tennessee twice, served four years in the air force, and long knew poverty, living notably in a former barn and then in motels. He never taught writing and refused paid lectures. He spent his last decades in New Mexico, where he died in 2023.

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• NovelBlood MeridianCormac McCarthy · 1985Literature