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Cormac McCarthy


Born
in Providence, Rhode Island, The United States
July 20, 1933

Died
June 13, 2023

Genre
Fiction

Influences
William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beck ...more


Cormac McCarthy was a highly acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter celebrated for his distinctive literary style, philosophical depth, and exploration of violence, morality, and the human condition. His writing, often characterized by sparse punctuation and lyrical, biblical language, delved into the primal forces that shape human behavior, set against the haunting landscapes of the American South and Southwest.
McCarthy’s early novels, including The Orchard Keeper and Outer Dark, established him as a powerful voice in Southern Gothic literature, while Blood Meridian (1985) is frequently cited as his magnum opus—a brutal, visionary epic about violence and manifest destiny in the American West. In the 1990s, his "Border Trilogy"—All th ...more

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Average rating: 4.03 · 1,880,434 ratings · 147,364 reviews · 68 distinct works • Similar authors
The Road
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No Country for Old Men
4.17 avg rating — 236,615 ratings — published 2005 — 21 editions
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Blood Meridian, or, the Eve...
4.16 avg rating — 208,056 ratings — published 1985 — 184 editions
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All the Pretty Horses (The ...
4.06 avg rating — 141,733 ratings — published 1992 — 201 editions
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Child of God
3.82 avg rating — 53,467 ratings — published 1973 — 82 editions
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The Crossing (The Border Tr...
4.16 avg rating — 45,927 ratings — published 1994 — 135 editions
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The Passenger (The Passenge...
3.57 avg rating — 36,208 ratings — published 2022 — 59 editions
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Cities of the Plain (The Bo...
4.13 avg rating — 30,890 ratings — published 1998 — 89 editions
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Suttree
4.20 avg rating — 27,352 ratings — published 1979 — 78 editions
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Outer Dark
3.89 avg rating — 24,447 ratings — published 1968 — 56 editions
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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
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“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
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Polls

January 2018 New School Poll

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, 468 pages, 1996
 
  68 votes, 19.5%

Dubliners by James Joyce, 207 pages, 1914
 
  39 votes, 11.2%

On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 307 pages, 1957
 
  29 votes, 8.3%

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, 181 pages, 1953
 
  24 votes, 6.9%

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 127 pages, 1923
 
  23 votes, 6.6%

 
  22 votes, 6.3%

The Wreath (book one of Kristin Lavransdatter) by Sigrid Undset, 305 pages, 1920
 
  17 votes, 4.9%

 
  16 votes, 4.6%

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, 468 pages, 1913
 
  16 votes, 4.6%

 
  15 votes, 4.3%

The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 425 pages, 1904
 
  13 votes, 3.7%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941
 
  12 votes, 3.4%

 
  12 votes, 3.4%

Light in August by William Faulkner, 507 pages, 1932
 
  11 votes, 3.2%

 
  10 votes, 2.9%

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, 189 pages, 1967
 
  9 votes, 2.6%

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, 384 pages, 1956
 
  7 votes, 2.0%

The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace, 134 pages, 1905
 
  6 votes, 1.7%

349 total votes
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