Author Cormac McCarthy
Welcome! This lens is about one of my all-time favorite authors, the award-winning renowned Cormac McCarthy. He has written ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres. Some of his novels have been made into movies. One of my favorites is the Border trilogy, which consists of "All the Pretty Horses," "The Crossing," and "Cities of the Plain."
About Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on July 20, 1933, and moved with his family to Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1937. He is the third of six children, with three sisters and two brothers. In Knoxville, he attended Knoxville 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 United States Air Force for four years, two of which he spent 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-Merrill 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.
In the mid-1960s, he traveled through the United Kingdom, Southern Europe, and Ibiza, returned to Tennessee but divorced and moved to El Paso in 1976. He then married again and moved north of Santa Fe. Living for more than 25 years in Tennessee and then Texas has given McCarthy firsthand experience with the American south and southwest terrain, accent and culture.
McCarthy's 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 he had heard of." At Random House, the manuscript found its way to Albert Erskine, who was William Faulkner's editor until Faulkner's death in 1962. Erskine continued to edit McCarthy for the next twenty years.
The Border Trilogy
The Border Trilogy Collection
by Cormac Mccarthy
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library)
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All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac Mccarthy
All the Pretty Horses
The first novel "All the Pretty Horses" tells of John Grady Cole, a sixteen year old cowboy who grew up on his grandfather's ranch in west Texas. The story begins soon after the death of John Grady's grandfather, and John Grady learns that the ranch is to be sold. Faced with the prospect of moving into town, John Grady instead chooses to leave, convincing his best friend, Lacey Rawlins, to accompany him. Traveling by horseback, the pair travel southward into Mexico, where they hope to find work as cowboys. They encounter, among others, a young boy, Jimmy Blevins, whom they befriend, and a young aristocrat's daughter, Alejandra, with whom John Grady Cole falls in love.
The Crossing
by Cormac Mccarthy
The Crossing
The second novel in the trilogy, "The Crossing," like its predecessor, All the Pretty Horses, is a coming-of-age novel set on the lands bordering the southern United States and Mexico. The plot takes place before and during the Second World War, and focuses on the life of Billy Parham, the protagonist, a teenage cowboy, his family and his younger brother Boyd. The story tells of three journeys taken from New Mexico to Mexico. It is noted for being a more melancholic novel than the first of the trilogy, without returning to the hellish bleakness of McCarthy's early novels.
Cities of the Plain
by Cormac Mccarthy
Cities of the Plain
The third novel of the trilogy "Cities of the Plain" takes place on both sides of the United States-Mexico border. The novel brings together John Grady Cole, protagonist of the first book of the trilogy, with Billy Parham, the young cowboy introduced in the second book.
The story begins in 1952 with both John Grady and Billy working together on a cattle ranch near the border cities of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. We learn of their life and work on the ranch. The owners are kind, but small cattle ranches of this kind are not thriving. Although the cowboys barely eke out their living, it is clear that John Grady and Billy love this harsh life -- close to the land, their horses, and the wild creatures that live in the desert. After a visit to a brothel in Juarez, John Grady falls in love with a fragile young prostitute, Magdalena. His destiny is to rescue her. Billy knows his younger friend is altruistic to a fault, but helps him in his mission. The brothel is run by Eduardo, a formidable adversary, and the opposite of John Grady in every way. Their meeting leads inevitably to a duel.
Three Reasons to Love Cormac Mccarthy
Pulitzer Prize winner in 2007 for The Road, and his 2005 novel No Country for Old Men.
Has won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture for No Country for Old Men.
One of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth. Cormac Mccarthy Novelist And Playwright
Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy's earlier Blood Meridian (1985) was among Time Magazine's poll of 100 best English-language books published between 1925 and 2005
Retrieved on 2008-06-03 and he placed joint runner-up for a similar title in a poll taken in 2006 by the The New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years.
Retrieved on 2008-06-03
Literary critic Harold Bloom 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.
McCarthy also has written plays and screenplays.
Film and television adaptations
The Gardener's Son was part of a series for PBS and aired in January 1977.
In 2000, McCarthy's novel All the Pretty Horses was made into a film directed by Billy Bob Thornton and starring Matt Damon.
McCarthy's 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted into a 2007 Academy Award-winning film directed by the Coen Brothers and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem.
A film based on the novel The Road was announced to be in development on April 2, 2007. John Hillcoat is set to direct and the adaptation will be handled by Joe Penhall.[6] The lead role of the father will be played by Viggo Mortensen. Also joining the cast is Charlize Theron of Blood Meridian, to be directed by Ridley Scott with a screenplay by Oscar-winner William Monahan ("The Departed"), is tentatively planned for a 2009 release.
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Awards Cormac McCarthy Has Won
In college, McCarthy won the Ingram-Merrill award in 1959 and 1960.
The Orchard Keeper was awarded the Faulkner prize for a first novel.
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.
In 1992, McCarthy was awarded the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses.
McCarthy was awarded the 2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, one of Britain's oldest literary honors, for The Road.
In 2007, McCarthy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Road. Oprah Interviews Cormac Mccarthy
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Cormac Mccarthy Pictures
No Country for Old Men on Blu-ray
Cormac McCarthy Movies
No Country for Old Men [Blu-ray]
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Miramax No Country For Old Men (Blu-ray)
Acclaimed filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen deliver their most gripping and ambitious film yet in this sizzling and supercharged action-thriller. When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million dollars in irresistible cash, his decision to take the money sets off an unstoppable chain reaction of violence. Not even West Texas law can contain it. Based on the novel byPulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, and featuring an acclaimed cast led by Tommy Lee Jones, this gritty game of cat and mouse will take you to the edge of your seat and beyond - right up to its heart-stopping final moment.
All the Pretty Horses DVD
Cormac McCarthy Movies
All the Pretty Horses
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Adapted from Cormac McCarthy's award-winning novel, All the Pretty Horses cries for epic length but runs only 112 minutes for theatrical release. Drastically shortened during a lengthy stretch between production and release, this operatic drama feels as if huge chunks are missing, and what remains are fragments of a masterpiece that might have been. Unless a more definitive version is revealed, we must settle for this faint echo of McCarthy's ambitious narrative, in which dispossessed Texas rancher John Grady Cole (Matt Damon) ventures to Mexico in 1949 to revive his fading dreams of cowboy glory. With best friend Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas), Cole's odyssey takes him from youthful idealism to rugged, often horrific, and ultimately ennobling tests of integrity.
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Miramax Films: No Country For Old Men Trailer
Miramax Films: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is a mesmerizing new thriller from Academy Award® winning filmmakers Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, based on the acclaimed novel by Pulitzer Prize winning American master Cormac McCarthy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. Featuring a cast that includes Academy Award®-winner Tommy Lee Jones ("The Fugitive," "Men in Black"), Josh Brolin ("Grindhouse"), Academy Award®-nominee Javier Bardem ("The Sea Inside"), Academy Award®-nominee Woody Harrelson ("The People Vs. Larry Flynt") and Kelly Macdonald ("Trainspotting"), NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is written for the screen and directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, produced by Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen and executive produced by Robert Graf and Mark Roybal. The story begins when Llewelyn Moss (BROLIN) finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law - in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell (JONES) - can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers - in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives (BARDEM) - the film simultaneously strips down the American crime drama and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning's headlines.
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Websites About Cormac McCarthy
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- Cormac McCarthy: A Biography
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- Writer: No Country for Old Men. Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, Awards, Agent, Fan Sites.
- The Road: Cormac McCarthy
- McCarthy gives voice to the unspeakable... His use of language is as exultant as his imaginings are hellish...This is art that both frightens and inspires. ...
- Red Planet: The New Yorker
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- Ten things that make Cormac McCarthy special - Times Online
- Jan 20, 2008 ... Until the publication of All the Pretty Horses in 1992, Cormac McCarthy was considered the best unknown novelist in America.
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- Feb 26, 2008 ... Few writers have captured the grandeur and cruelty of the American frontier more vividly than Cormac McCarthy. As the film of his novel 'No ...
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Dictionary of Literary Biography
"Cormac McCarthy": A Biographical Essay from Gale's "Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 256, Twentieth-Century American Western Writers, Third Series" (code 16)
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Cormac McCarthy Blog Posts
- Faith, Fear & Cormac McCarthy — Civitate
- Faith, Fear & Cormac McCarthy. by The Editor on January 7, 2009. Good morning, friends. Our first posted article from the Winter 2008 issue comes from Christopher Badeaux. Enjoy! When I was a kid, I went creekwalking across what is now ...
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- Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy - A Book Review « Scott ...
- Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy - A Book Review. In this third installment of The Border Trilogy, McCarthy brings together John Grady Cole from Book I and Billy Parham from Book II as they work together on a ranch. ...
- Movie Buzz propelling rise of Cormac McCarthy's The Road on Indie ...
- Buzz about the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road appears to be propelling the rise of the book on the Indie Bestseller List. McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for post-apocalyptic tale of father and son traveling through a ...
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BigGirlBlue wrote...
He's an interesting man. My husband just finished reading "The Road". He found it hard to get into at first because of the lack of punctuation but once he let go of the concept that every word must be a certain way he enjoyed the book.




































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