Cormac McCarthy, the acclaimed fiction writer whose books were regarded as American masterpieces by critics and legions of fans but who refused to offer insight into what had inspired them or what they might mean, has died.
Widely regard as one of America’s greatest living writers, McCarthy died on Tuesday of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., according to his publisher, Knopf. He was 89.
His 2005 novel ”No Country for Old Men” was adapted into a screenplay for the Coen brothers’ movie of the same name, which won the Academy Award for best picture. And “The Road,” an allegorical tale of a father and son wandering through the grey gloom following an unexplained cataclysm, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2007.
He was also steadfastly private, not in the reclusive manner of J.D. Sallinger or Thomas Pynchon, but more along the lines of Bob Dylan, who preferred to let his printed words speak for themselves. “You start the day with the hope that today I’m going to do something better than I ever had,” he said. “And, you know, that lasts a few minutes.”
When the couple returned to America and moved into an old farm in Tennessee, McCarthy split his time between rebuilding the sagging structure — erecting a chimney from stones he gathered in the nearby hills and cutting and planning wood for the siding — and writing “Child of God,” the story of a demented woodsman, murderer and necrophiliac. The couple later divorced, and McCarthy moved to El Paso.
“More than an allegory or fantasy, ‘The Road’ is a frighteningly credible novel,” art critic Sebastian Smee wrote. “In some ways, I wish I had not read it.” Though McCarthy generally refused to sign copies of his book, he switched gears with “The Road” and gave his son John 250 signed copies of the book.In 2019, McCarthy put his Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter on the auction block. He’d purchase it for $50 and estimated he had typed 5 million words on the machine. Expected to go for as much as $20,000, it fetched $245,000. McCarthy quickly replaced the typewriter with another Olivetti that a friend found at a bargain store for $11 and kept writing.
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