Cormac+McCarthy




 * Life History **

//**Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island on July 20, 1933. He is the third one out of six children (the eldest son) born to Charles Joseph and Gladys Christina, McGrail McCarthy, he has two brothers and three sisters. Originally named Charles after his father, he renamed himself Cormac after the Irish King.The McCarthy's family was responsible for legally changing his name to the Gaelic equivalent of "son of Charles".In 1937, when he was four, the family moved to Knoxville, and his father became a lawyer for the Tennessee Valley Authority (legal staff 1934-67; chief counsel 1958-67). In 1967,the McCarthys moved from Knoxville to Washington, D.C., where Charles was the principal attorney in a law firm until his retirement.Cormac was raised Roman Catholic. He attended Catholic High School in Knoxville, then went to the University of Tennessee in 1951-52. His major: liberal arts. McCarthy joined the U.S. Air Force in 1953; he served four years, spending two of them stationed in Alaska, where he hosted a radio show.**//

//**Cormac McCarthy's first novel****,**// **The Orchard Keeper** **(1965), won a Faulkner Award, and his friends and family kept him to continue writing novels while he lived in Tennessee and Texas. Although, his novels Outer Dark (1968), Child of God (1973) and Suttree (1979) solidified his literary reputation, he was relatively unknown until 1985's Blood Meridian, a violent epic about the American west. During the '90s McCarthy, use the prose stylist in the tradition of Hemingway and Faulkner, became famous for his literary westerns called The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing(1994) and Cities on the Plain (1998). His other novels include No Country for Old Men (2005) and The Road (2006).**
 * History of his Passion in Writing. **
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