Quick Facts
Birthday: July 20, 1933
Nationality: American
Age: 87 Years, 87 Year Old Males
Sun Sign: Cancer
Also Known As: Charles Joseph McCarthy, Jr.
Born Country: United States
Born in: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Famous as: Novelist
Novelists
American Men
Family:Spouse/Ex-: Annie DeLisle (m. 1967–1981), Jennifer Winkley (m. 1997–2006), Lee Holleman (m. 1961–1962)
father: Charles Joseph McCarthy
mother: Gladys Christina (née McGrail)
siblings: Cullen McCarthy, John McCarthy
U.S. State: Rhode Island
City: Providence, Rhode Island
More Facts
education: University Of Tennessee
awards: 2007 · The Road - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1992 · All the Pretty Horses - National Book Award for Fiction
1981 · Fiction - MacArthur Fellowship
1969 - Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts
US & Canada
1992 · All the Pretty Horses - National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
2009 · The Road - Tähtivaeltaja Award
2006 · The Road - James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction
2007 · The Road - Quill Award for General fiction
Cormac McCarthy is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his Western characters and historical settings in his novels. He served the U.S. Air Force briefly, while studying at the University of Tennessee. He wrote for the university magazine and won the Ingram-Merrill Award. After publishing his first novel, The Orchard Keeper in 1965, he set off for Ireland on a traveling scholarship. He was mostly poor throughout his early writing days but traveled a lot. He won the Rockefeller Foundation Grant, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the MacArthur Fellowship. In 2007, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for this post-apocalyptic novel The Road. Some of his other notable works are Blood Meridian and The Border Trilogy. He got married and divorced thrice and now lives in New Mexico.