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Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy

Born: July 20, 1933
Providence, Rhode Island
Occupation: Writer, Playwright
Genres: Literature
Influences: Herman Melville, William Faulkner
Website: Official website

Cormac McCarthy (born July 20, 1933) is an American novelist who has authored ten novels in the Southern Gothic, post-apocalyptic fiction, and western genres.

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.

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[edit] Biography

McCarthy's family moved to Knoxville in 1937. He is the third of six children, with three sisters and two brothers. In Knoxville he attended Catholic High School. His father was a successful lawyer for the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1934 to 1967.

McCarthy entered the University of Tennessee in 1951-1952 and was a liberal arts major. In 1953 he joined the US Air Force for four years, he spent two years of this time in Alaska where he hosted a radio show. In 1957 he returned to the University of Tennessee. During this time in college he published two stories in a student paper and won the Ingram-Merril award in 1959 and 1960. In 1961 he and fellow university student Lee Holleman were married and had their son Cullen. He left school without earning a degree and moved with his family to Chicago where he wrote his first novel. He returned to Sevier County, Tennessee, and his marriage to Lee Holleman ended.[1]

His first novel, The Orchard Keeper, was published by Random House in 1965. He decided to send the manuscript to Random House because, "it was the only publisher I had heard of." At Random House the manuscript found Albert Erskine, who was William Faulkner's editor until Faulkner's death in 1962. Mr. Erskine continued to edit McCarthy for the next 20 years.

In the summer of 1965 using a Traveling Fellowship award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters he shipped out aboard the liner Sylvania. He hoped to visit Ireland, however he met Anne DeLisle, who was working on the ship as a singer. They married in England in 1966 and McCarthy received a Rockefeller Foundation Grant which he used to travel around Southern Europe before landing in Ibiza where he wrote his second novel Outer Dark. After he returned to America with his wife, and Outer Dark was published in 1968 to generally favorable reviews.[1]

In 1969, McCarthy moved with his wife to Louisville, Tennessee, purchasing a barn, which McCarthy renovated, even doing the stonework himself.[1] Here he wrote his next book Child of God, based on actual events. Child of God was published in 1973 and like Outer Dark before it Child of God was set in southern Appalachia. In 1976 McCarthy separated from Anne DeLisle and moved to El Paso, Texas. Later, in 1979 his novel Suttree was finally published. He had been writing Suttree on and off for twenty years.[2] Supporting himself with the money from his 1981 MacArthur Fellowship he wrote his next novel Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West, which was published in 1985 and considered to be his best work.

McCarthy lives in the Tesuque area of Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife, Jennifer Winkley and their son John. He guards his privacy closely and rarely gives interviews; one of his few interviews (with the New York Times) described McCarthy as a "gregarious loner". He remains active in the academic community of Santa Fe and spends much of his time at the Santa Fe Institute, which was founded by his friend, physicist Murray Gell-Mann.

[edit] Family

Children:

  • Cullen McCarthy, son (with Lee Holleman)
  • John McCarthy, son (with Jennifer Winkley)

Marriages:

  • Lee Holleman, (1961) divorced
  • Annie DeLisle, (1967 - divorced 1981)
  • Jennifer Winkley (Married as of 2006)

[edit] Awards

  • In college, McCarthy won the Ingram-Merril award in 1959 and 1960.
  • The Orchard Keeper was awarded the Faulkner prize for a first novel.[2]
  • He won a Traveling Fellowship award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
  • In 1969 McCarthy was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for creative writing.
  • In 1981 McCarthy was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.[1]
  • In 1992 McCarthy was awarded The National Book Award for All The Pretty Horses.

[edit] Works

[edit] Blood Meridian

This 1985 novel of historical fiction marked a shift in the setting of his books to the southwest. His works are often divided into the "Appalachian Period" and the "Southwestern Period". This work is polarizing: it is certainly his most violent work, but also work of tremendous depth and precision. It traces the life of a boy named only "the kid", who in 1851 finds himself riding with "The Glanton Gang", a vicious gang of outlaws who are being paid by the Mexican government to bring back Indian scalps. The book unflinchingly depicts horrific acts of violence committed by Americans, Indians and Mexicans alike. Despite the graphic depictions of violence the outlaws commit against nearly anyone they encounter in their journey across a long swath of the West, the novel is written in a language that is not only exact but florid and dense, using a vocabulary heavily borrowed from Spanish and a diction that seems at turns archaic and lyrical. In a 2006 New York Times poll asking many noted writers and critics what they thought were the most important works in American fiction in the last 25 years, Blood Meridian ranked #3 (behind only Toni Morrison's Beloved and Don DeLillo's Underworld).

[edit] The Border Trilogy

Despite several awards and a number of positive reviews, McCarthy was not widely read until the publication of his sixth novel, All the Pretty Horses (1992). The book, the first part of what McCarthy calls "The Border Trilogy," spent some time on bestseller lists and won the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. It was later made into a film. The Crossing (1994) and Cities of the Plain (1998) rounded out the trilogy. In the 2006 New York Times Book Survey mentioned above, "The Border Trilogy" collectively ranked as the fifth most important work of American fiction in the last twenty-five years.

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[edit] Derivative productions

[edit] Criticism

Cormac McCarthy was assailed by B.R. Myers in A Reader's Manifesto in the Atlantic Monthly, August 2001.

[edit] Trivia

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Arnold, Edwin (1999). Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1-57806-105-9. 
  2. ^ a b c Woodward, Richard. "Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction", New York Times, 1992-04-19. Retrieved on August 24, 2006.
  3. ^ Julia Keller. "Oprah's selection a real shocker: Winfrey, McCarthy strange bookfellows", Chicago Tribune.

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