- Born
- Died
- Birth nameCharles Joseph McCarthy Jr.
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Cormac McCarthy was born on July 20, 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Road (2009), No Country for Old Men (2007) and The Counselor (2013). He was married to Jennifer Claire Winkley, Anne DeLisle and Lee Holleman. He died on June 13, 2023 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
- SpousesJennifer Claire Winkley(January 2, 1998 - 2006) (divorced, 1 child)Anne DeLisle(1967 - 1981) (divorced)Lee Holleman(1961 - 1962) (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- Dialogue with no quotation marks.
- Graphic violence written in disurbing detail.
- Literary critic Harold Bloom considered him one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth.
- His novel "The Road" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.
- His novel "All the Pretty Horses" won the [American] National Book Award in 1992.
- Lived with his family in the Tesuque, New Mexico, area.
- Once a hard drinker, he quit in his early forties.
- [on Terrence Malick, whom he admires] It's so strange; I never knew what happened to him. I saw Richard Gere in New Orleans one time, and I said, "What ever happened to Terry Malick?" And he said, "Everybody asks me that." He said, "I have no idea." But later on I met Terry. And he just - he just decided that he didn't want to live that life. Or so he told me. He just didn't want to live the life. It wasn't that he didn't like the films. It's just, if you could do it without living in Hollywood...
- [on All the Pretty Horses (2000)] It could've been better. As it stands today it could be cut and made into a pretty good movie. The director had the notion that he could put the entire book up on the screen. Well, you can't do that. You have to pick out the story that you want to tell and put that on the screen. And so he made this four-hour film and then he found that if he was actually going to get it released, he would have to cut it down to two hours. [2009]
- [on his novel "Blood Meridian" being regarded as 'unfilmable'] That's all crap. The fact that's it's a bleak and bloody story has nothing to do with whether or not you can put it on the screen. That's not the issue. The issue is it would be very difficult to do and would require someone with a bountiful imagination and a lot of balls. But the payoff could be extraordinary. [2009]
- If you look at the Greek plays, they're really good. And there's just a handful of them. Well how good would they be if there were 2,500 of them? But that's the future looking back at us. Anything you can think of, there's going to be millions of them. Just the sheer number of things will devalue them. I don't care whether it's art, literature, poetry or drama, whatever. The sheer volume of it will wash it out. I mean if you had thousands of Greek plays to read, would they be that good? I don't think so. ...Just the appalling volume of artifacts will erase all meaning that they could ever possibly have. But we probably won't get that far anyway.
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