1. Cormac McCarthy - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Cormac McCarthy was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on July 20, 1933, and moved with his family to Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1937. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search For the musician, see Cormac McCarthy (musician) Please help improve this article or section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion (January 2007) Cormac McCarthy Born July 20 Providence, Rhode Island Occupation Novelist ... Western Children Cullen McCarthy, son (with Lee Holleman) John McCarthy, son (with Jennifer Winkley) Influences Herman Melville William Faulkner Fyodor Dostoevsky Website Official website Cormac McCarthy , born Charles McCarthy, (born July 20 in Providence, Rhode Island ), is a Pulitzer Prize -winning American novelist who has authored ten novels in the Southern Gothic western , and post-apocalyptic genres. He has also written plays and screenplays. Literary critic Harold Bloom has named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon Don DeLillo , and Philip Roth . He is frequently compared by modern reviewers to William Faulkner and sometimes to Herman Melville Contents Biography Family Bibliography Novels ... edit Biography Cormac McCarthy was born in Providence Rhode Island , on July 20 , and moved with his family to Knoxville, Tennessee

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3. Cormac McCarthy --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Cormac McCarthy American writer in the Southern gothic tradition whose novels about wayward characters in the http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9104557/Cormac-McCarthy

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4. Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy. Cormac McCarthy AKA Charles Joseph McCarthy, Jr. Born 20Jul-1933 Birthplace Providence, RI. Gender Male Religion Roman Catholic http://www.nndb.com/people/361/000026283/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Cormac McCarthy AKA Charles Joseph McCarthy, Jr. Born: 20-Jul Birthplace: Providence, RI Gender: Male Religion: Roman Catholic Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist, Playwright Nationality: United States Executive summary: All the Pretty Horses Military service: USAF (1953-57) Father: Charles Joseph McCarthy, Sr. Mother: Gladys Christina McGrail Sister: Helen Jacquelyn Sister: Barbara Ann Wife: Lee Holleman (m. 1961, div., one son) Wife: Anne DeLisle (m. 1966, div.) Wife: Jennifer Winkley (one son) Son: Cullen Son: John High School: Knoxville Catholic High School University: University of Tennessee, Knoxville Guggenheim Fellowship MacArthur Fellowship National Book Award for Fiction 1992, for All the Pretty Horses Author of books: The Orchard Keeper , novel) Outer Dark , novel) Child of God , novel) Suttree , novel) Blood Meridian , novel) All the Pretty Horses , novel, Border Trilogy) The Crossing , novel, Border Trilogy) Cities of the Plain , novel, Border Trilogy) No Country for Old Men , novel) Do you know something we don't?

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Home Works Biography Resources ... Contact Friday, July 20, 2007 Happy Birthday Today, July 20, is Cormac McCarthy's 74th birthday. Happy Birthday, Mr. McCarthy. Best wishes. posted by mp Monday, July 16, 2007 McCarthy Signs Two-Book Deal On July 14, The New York Times reported that Knopf has signed a new book deal with Cormac McCarthy. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. "We don’t know anything about them," Paul Bogaards, a spokesman for Knopf, said. "But two new novels by Cormac McCarthy is good enough for us." This is the first we've officially heard about these two books, and at this point this blurb represents the sum total of what we know about them. posted by mp Saturday, June 16, 2007 No Country for Old Men Trailer Debuts Online Around these parts, when we haven't been bickering among ourselves , we've been eagerly anticipating the trailer for the Coen Brothers' adaptation of No Country for Old Men . Well, the trailer has finally arrived Also, those of you who haven't visited the Oprah interview site lately are in for a real treat. They continue posting excerpts and outtakes from the interview; the latest features McCarthy on Henry Miller, inspiration, dreams, and John Nash. You'll have to register, but it's worth it. Labels: interview movies posted by mp Monday, June 04, 2007

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A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. Esquire You should read this book because it is exactly what a book about our future ought to be. Booklist (starred) Hypnotic and haunting, relentlessly dark, this is a novel to read in late-night solitude. Though the focus never leaves the two travelers, they carry our humanity, and we can't help but feel the world hangs in the balance of their hopeless quest. A masterpiece. Kirkus Reviews (starred) Even within the author's extraordinary body of work, this stands as a radical achievement, a novel that demands to be read and reread. Publishers Weekly (starred) [A] postapocalyptic tour de force... Janet Maslin, New York Times Trenchant and terrifying...fueled by a universal nightmare... illuminated by extraordinary tenderness...McCarthy gives voice to the unspeakable... His use of language is as exultant as his imaginings are hellish...This is art that both frightens and inspires. The New Yorker The horrors here are extreme but McCarthy's prose retainsits ability to seduce and there are nods to the gentler aspects of the human spirit.

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Featured Author: Cormac McCarthy From the Archives of The New York Times Related Links Sara Mosle Reviews 'Cities of the Plain' (May 17, 1998) Excerpt from 'Cities of the Plain' In This Feature Reviews of Cormac McCarthy's Earlier Books Articles About Cormac McCarthy CORMAC MCCARTHY Credit: Marion Ettlinger REVIEWS OF CORMAC MCCARTHY'S EARLIER BOOKS: The Orchard Keeper "In his 'The Orchard Keeper' [McCarthy] has his own story to tell; but he tells it with so many of Faulkner's literary devices and mannerisms that he half submerges his own talents beneath a flood of imitation." Outer Dark "Every word . . . is designed to serve Mr. McCarthy's sharply controlled sense of place and action. There is not a page of this novel which does not depict swift and significant action. . . . Such discipline comes not only from mastery over words but from an understanding wise enough and compassionate enough to dare tell so abysmally dark a story." Child of God "What we have in 'Child of God' is an essentially sentimental novel that no matter how sternly it strives to be tragic is never more than morose." Suttree "The book comes at us like a horrifying flood. The language licks, batters, woundsa poetic, troubled rush of debris. . . . His text is broken, beautiful and ugly in spots. Mr. McCarthy won't soothe us with a quiet song. 'Suttree' is like a good, long scream in the ear."

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Book Selections Anna Karenina As I Lay Dying Cry, The Beloved Country East of Eden The Good Earth The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Light in August Love in the Time of Cholera The Measure of a Man Middlesex A Million Little Pieces Night One Hundred Years of Solitude The Pillars of the Earth The Road The Sound and the Fury A Summer of Faulkner Browse Past Selections Oprah's Book Club Features See What's New Message Boards Online Reading Groups Oprah's Essay Contest Make Your Own Bookmark Tips for Hosting Oprah's Classroom Videos THE CORMAC MCCARTHY INTERVIEW In his first on-camera interview, Cormac McCarthy sits down with Oprah to talk about his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, luck, money and more. Watch this exclusive conversation. THEMES IN THE ROAD What destroyed the world? How far would you go to protect your child's life? What is the difference between "good guys" and "bad guys"? We've called in Cormac McCarthy's scientific colleagues from the Santa Fe Institute to help us explore the novel in new ways. START THE JOURNEY It's a powerful story of a father and son against an unrecognizable, post-apocalyptic world. Read an excerpt from this powerful novel. Plus, download an exclusive Oprah's Book Club bookmark and find discussion questions.

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No Country for Old Men - TIME var s_account="timecom"; Time.com CNN.com Search Archive Home U.S. The Page Main ... Pictures of the Week A conversation between author Cormac McCarthy and the Coen Brothers, about the new movie No Country for Old Men Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007 By LEV GROSSMAN Enlarge Photo From left, author Cormac McCarthy and Joel and Ethan Cohen. Eric Ogden for TIME Article Tools Print Email Reprints Sphere addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; addthis_pub = 'timecom'; RSS A conversation between Cormac McCarthy and Joel and Ethan Coen Related Articles Sphere.Inline.search('sphereSideBar','http://time.com/') tiiQuigoWriteAd(755769, 1290761, 180, 200, -1); If you were going to play the parlor game of arranging the most interesting, improbable, imaginary conversation among American entertainers, you could do worse than the one that took place in midtown Manhattan earlier this month. The participants were the filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, known for smart, stylish and slightly silly movies like Fargo and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and the novelist Cormac McCarthy, who won the National Book Award for All the Pretty Horses and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road. If it were a reality show it would be called Eccentric Genius Island. McCarthy and the Coen brothers have just collaborated on a movie version of McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men, a thriller about a serial killer and a busted drug deal. It's a searing, shocking movie that plays like a eulogy for the great American West. It also features the best scene ever filmed of a dog chasing a guy in a river.

16. Cormac McCarthy The following is a listing of Englishlanguage print materials relevant to cormac mccarthy studies, updated and expanded from its first versions, http://www.midlandstech.com/edu/ed/eng/biblio.htm

Back to McCarthy Site Cormac McCarthy A Bibliography Dianne C. Luce July 2007 Update of Cormac McCarthy: A Bibliography A version of this bibliography was first published in Southern Quarterly (Summer 1992), and revised and expanded in Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy, Edwin T. Arnold and Dianne C. Luce, eds. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1993. [page last updated on 01 August 2007 Preface T he following is a listing of English-language print materials relevant to Cormac McCarthy studies, updated and expanded from its first versions, which were published in Southern Quarterly (1992) and in Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy (1993). Omitted here are the listings of primary materials, foreign language studies, and most English-language items published in countries whose predominant language is other than English, except for those available in the United States. (Such lists appear elsewhere on the Cormac McCarthy web pages.) Internet publications are not indexed here. The first section below attempts an inclusive listing—alphabetical by author—of printed books and articles that have given scholarly examination to McCarthy’s work, including entries in reference books and review-essays of scholarly books. (Short reviews of scholarly books on McCarthy are not listed.) Reviews of McCarthy’s books by scholars are not listed here, but in the Reviews section of the bibliography. Included too are a few items that are not scholarly in nature, but which appear in professional journals. To document McCarthy’s reception in the scholarly community, even very brief or insignificant treatments of his work have been included; for many of these, annotations identify the nature of the material relating to McCarthy.

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Movies Restaurants Food Calendar ... Books CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK On 'The Road' of realism with Oprah March 31, 2007 Oprah Winfrey's book club picks tend to be met with a flurry of fanfare and technology: Book jacket stickers appear overnight; publishers go into instant mega-printings; booksellers raze their displays to make room for the new new thing. Whether her choice is mainstream (Sidney Poitier), classic (William Faulkner), or even publicly retracted (James Frey), the fact is that Oprah's mighty reach guarantees the book a position on the bestseller list sometimes for years. Certain that the book-buying masses can shoulder this grimness of subject, Vintage Books, in charge of the paperback, has reportedly ordered a massive printing of 950,000. However odd or fatalistic Oprah's choice may seem, the truth is that "The Road" is as captivating as anything McCarthy has ever written. That's not a qualitative judgment; it's a pragmatic one: You try reading a scary literary novel about the end of the world complete with ashen skies and marauding cannibals and just see if you're not loath to put it down. Which is surely what happened to Oprah, when her reading committee handed her this mythic tragedy posing as a horror story. Given the paucity of life forms on the planet, there are only two fully realized characters in the novel: a man and his son, walking through an austere and empty world toward the sea. It is probably October; the boy is probably somewhere around 10 though the father has forgotten his birthdays. They have between them a shopping cart and a few cans of food, a gun with two bullets. We never know what catastrophe has felled the planet, only that "the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp." Most of what has made them human memory and color and the names of things is disappearing, being let go like tissue in a high wind. The past itself is evoked as a mournful fugue: The man was most likely a physician in their old lives; his wife and the boy's mother, facing the future, chose the quicker route of suicide.

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Cormac McCarthy: biography, bibliography, filmography, links INTERNAL LINKS amazon uk books Billy Bob Thornton biography project home site map Charles Joseph McCarthy, Jr was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1933. (He changed his name to Cormac, meaning son of Charles, later in life.) His family moves to Knoxville, Tennessee in 1937 where his father works on the legal staff of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Cormac attends the Catholic High School, enters the University of Tennessee in 1951. He enlists in the US Air Force in 1953, serves for four years, two of them stationed in Alaska. Returns to the University in 1957, publishes two stories in the student literary magazine, The Phoenix . He wins the Ingram-Merill Award for creative writing in 1959 and 1960. Marries Lee Holleman, has a son. McCarthy leaves the University without graduating, moves to Chicago, works as an auto mechanic while working on his first novel. Returns to Tennessee, divorces wife. He receives a traveling fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, takes an ocean liner to Ireland in 1965. The Orchard Keeper is published in May of 1965, wins the Faulkner Award.

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Home Your account Current issue Archives ... February 15, 2007 After the Apocalypse By Michael Chabon Cormac McCarthy The Road by Cormac McCarthy Knopf, 241 pp., $24.00 Charlton Heston and a savagely coiffed vixen, wrapped in animal skins, riding horseback along a desolate seashore, confronted by the spike-crowned ruin of the Statue of Liberty half buried in the sand: everyone knows how the world ends. First radiation, plague, an asteroid, or some other cataclysm kills most of humankind. The remnants mutate, lapse into feudalism, or revert to prehistoric brutality. Old cults are revived with their knives and brutal gods, while tiny noble bands cling to the tatters of the lost civilization, preserving knowledge of machinery, agriculture, and the missionary position against some future renascence, and confronting their ancestors' legacy of greatness and destruction. Ambivalence toward technology is the underlying theme, and thus we are accustomed to thinking of stories that depict the end of the world and its aftermath as essentially science fiction. These stories feel like science fiction, too, because typically they deal with the changed nature of society in the wake of cataclysm, the strange new priesthoods, the caste systems of the genetically stable, the worshipers of techno-death, the rigid pastoral theocracies in which mutants and machinery are taboo, etc.; for inevitably these new societies mirror and comment upon our own. Science fiction has always been a powerful instrument of satire, and thus it is often the satirist's finger that pushes the button, or releases the killer bug.

20. CBC.ca Arts - Texas School Nets Cormac McCarthy Papers A central Texas university has purchased the archives of Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist cormac mccarthy. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2008/01/14/mccarthy-cormac-archive.html?ref=r

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