Cormac Mccathy

Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island on July 20, 1933. Cormac attended roman catholic school in Knoxville, where afterwards he went to the university of Tennessee to pursue his degree in liberal arts. He then enlisted in the Air Force were he served for four years and spent two of them hosting a radio talk show. After his service in the Air Force Cormac returned to university were he published two stories for a magazine which he received the Ingram-Merrill Award for creative writing in 1959 and 1960. Now Cormac has found the love of his life and they moved away to Chicago where he worked as a auto mechanic. He then had a son named Cullen but shortly after that they divorced and went there separate ways. Cormac liked to often base his books on some actual facts from the history in some of his earlier works. Cormac was a great writer of his time and he received many grants to travel and further his work. He meet his second wife on a cruise boat, who is also divorced. Two of Cormac's greatest novels are No Country for Old Men, and The Road. No Country for Old Men has now been made into a movie where it has done very well in the box office. Cormac has been criticized throughout his career as a writer but overall most would say that he is a well accomplished writer who wrote some spectacular novels. He has writ en a total of ten published books which he has one eight awards for. He writes with a very different style, using a post apocalyptic, western, southern gothic genres with his books. Cormac now lives in Mexico because America is no country for old men. Ha ha