Cormac McCarthy dead: The Road and No Country for Old Men author dead at 89
Asher Notheis
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Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of books such as The Road and No Country for Old Men, died on Tuesday at the age of 89.
McCarthy died of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, according to his publisher Knopf.
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“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden,” read a quote from The Road posted by the publisher.
The Road was a novel published in 2007 and is about a father and son traveling through a ravaged United States as they journey to the country’s coast. The novel won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.
No Country for Old Men, published in 2005, is a novel about a drug deal that goes wrong in the vicinity of the Southern border and takes place during the 1980s. The novel was adapted into a film in 2007, which went on to win Best Picture at the 2008 Academy Awards; other awards that the film won at the ceremony include Best Supporting Actor by Javier Bardem and Best Directing and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for Joel and Ethan Coen, according to the Oscars.
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Other books McCarthy has written include Blood Meridian, published in 1985, The Passenger, and Stella Maris, both of which were published in 2022.
McCarthy was raised Roman Catholic and attended Catholic High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. He joined the U.S. Air Force in 1953 and served four years, two of which he spent stationed in Alaska, where he hosted a radio show, according to his biography.