Cormac McCarthy

1933–2023 · United States

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Biography

American novelist often called the greatest American writer of his generation. Blood Meridian, his apocalyptic Western, is considered his masterpiece, while No Country for Old Men and The Road brought him wider recognition. His prose — Biblical in its cadences, unflinching in its violence, sparse in its punctuation — is among the most distinctive in American literature.

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