Quiz: Cormac McCarthy

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1. Cormac McCarthy was born on July 20, 1933 to Charles and Gladys McCarthy in Rhode Island.

2. When Cormac McCarthy was twenty he joined the US Air Force for four years.

3. Cormac McCarthy first novel, The Orchard Keeper was published in 1965.

4. His work is often compared to that of William Faulkner which is not surprising considering he they shared the same editor, Albert Erskine.

5. Cormac McCarthy won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for "distinguished fiction by an American Author preferably dealing with American Life," for his novel The Road.

6. In 1992, All the Pretty Horses became Cormac McCarthy´´s first best seller. It was also made into a movie starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz.

7. Cormac McCarthy married Lee Holeman (1st), Anne DeLisle (2nd) and Jennifer Winkley (current).

8. Cormac McCarthy wrote The Gardener's Son (screenplay), Sunset Ltd. (play) and The Stone Mason (play).

9. Just before he won the Pulitzer Prize, Cormac McCarthy's book The Road became an Oprah Pick.

10. In a 1992 interview with Cormac McCarthy, he was described by Richard B. Woodward (New York Times) as a "hermetic" and "gregarious loner".