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  <name><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres and has also written plays and screenplays. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for &lt;i&gt;The Road&lt;/i&gt;, and his 2005 novel &lt;i&gt;No Country for Old Men&lt;/i&gt; was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

His earlier &lt;i&gt;Blood Meridian&lt;/i&gt; (1985) was among &lt;i&gt;Time Magazine's&lt;/i&gt; poll of 100 best English-language books published between 1925 and 2005 and he placed joint runner-up for a similar title in a poll taken in 2006 by &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;/i&gt; of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years. Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth. He is frequently compared by modern reviewers to William Faulkner.

In 2009, Cormac McCarthy won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, a lifetime achievement award given by the PEN American Center.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Providence, Rhode Island</hometown>  <born_at>07/20/1933</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Road]]></title>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
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  <published>2006</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[No Country for Old Men]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.97</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>12119</ratings_count>
  <published>2005</published>  
  
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        <book id="469571">
  <title><![CDATA[All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy, Vol 1)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.88</average_rating>
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  <published>1992</published>  
  
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        <book id="394535">
  <title><![CDATA[Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.24</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>7574</ratings_count>
  <published>1985</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Crossing (Border Trilogy, Vol 2)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.03</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3038</ratings_count>
  <published>1994</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Cities of the Plain (Border Trilogy, Vol 3)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.91</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2097</ratings_count>
  <published>1998</published>  
  
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        <book id="293625">
  <title><![CDATA[Child of God]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2062</ratings_count>
  <published>1974</published>  
  
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        <book id="394469">
  <title><![CDATA[Suttree]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.20</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1596</ratings_count>
  <published>1979</published>  
  
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        <book id="40471">
  <title><![CDATA[Outer Dark]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.86</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1127</ratings_count>
  <published>1968</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses / The Crossing / Cities of the Plain]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.39</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>695</ratings_count>
  <published>1994</published>  
  
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