Literary icon Cormac McCarthy, the writer of No Nation for Previous Males, dies of pure causes at age 89 at his dwelling in Sante Fe
Cormac McCarthy, broadly considered one of many best writers in American historical past, has died aged 89.
McCarthy handed away on Tuesday at his dwelling in Sante Fe, New Mexico, his writer Knopf confirmed.
In a press release it stated: ‘Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Cormac McCarthy died at the moment of pure causes at his dwelling in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was eighty-nine years previous. His dying was confirmed by his son, John McCarthy.’
Cormac McCarthy attends the HBO Movies & The Cinema Society screening of Sundown Restricted at Porter Home on February 1, 2011 in New York Metropolis
Fellow writer Stephen King led tributes on-line writing on Twitter: ‘Cormac McCarthy, perhaps the best American novelist of my time, has handed away at 89.
‘He was stuffed with years and created a superb physique of labor, however I nonetheless mourn his passing.’
McCarthy was identified for such Western and apocalyptic novels as ‘The Highway,’ ‘Blood Meridian’ and ‘No Nation for Previous Males,’ which was tailored by the Coen brothers into an Academy Award-winning film of the identical identify.
His different honors embody a Nationwide Ebook Award and Nationwide Ebook Critics Circle Award for ‘All of the Fairly Horses.’
