USA TODAY has reached out to McCarthy's reps for comment. Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Road,' dies at 89 “He was so shocked," Britt told the magazine. "He said he was ...

“Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.” ...

Many scholars consider this to be McCarthy’s greatest Southern novel. It traces the title character’s life along the Tennessee River mingling with drunks, grifters and misfits. This whipsawing ...

There have been multiple Cormac McCarthy adaptations over the years, including the Best Picture winner No Country For Old Men ...

Scholar Dianne C. Luce notes that at the time, Cormac McCarthy was living in Knoxville, just a couple hours up the highway from Chattanooga, where the local papers also covered the Lula Lake murders.

Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia and the American Southwest, died on June 12, 2023, at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. McCarthy’s fiction took a dark view of ...

and he makes judicious use of it in his illuminating study of McCarthy's Irish and Catholic cultural inheritance. My article, “Robert Coles and Cormac McCarthy: A Case Study of Literary Patronage,” is ...