Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in 1933 and spent most of his childhood near Knoxville, Tennessee.
He served in the U.S. Air Force and later studied at the University of Tennessee. In 1976 he moved to El Paso, Texas, and now resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
McCarthy’s fiction parallels his movement from the Southeast to the West—the first four novels being set in Tennessee, the last three in the Southwest and Mexico. The Orchard Keeper won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed by Outer Dark , Child of God, Suttree, and Blood Meridian. All the Pretty Horses, which won the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1992, is the first volume in McCarthy’s acclaimed Border Trilogy, and was followed by The Crossing and Cities of the Plain.
He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road, and his 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
He is also the author of The Stone Mason: A Play in Five Acts.
McCarthy is also the recipient of a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation, among other grants.
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