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McCarthy was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lyrical and often brutally violent novels propelled him to the first ranks of American fiction.

US author Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning genius behind such indelible American novels as Suttree, Blood Meridian, and The Road, along with The Border Trilogy, has died in Santa Fe at age 89.Too often touted as a successor to the gothic modernism of William Faulkner, McCarthys fiction s

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, who wrote nihilistic and violent tales of the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds that enthralled and appalled readers, died on Tuesday at the age of 89, his representative confirmed to CBC News.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Cormac McCarthy's lyrical and often brutally violent novels propelled him to the first ranks of American fiction, immersing readers in scenes of savagery, despair, and occasional tenderness.

Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist best known for his brutal Westerns, has died at the age of 89.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of ‘The Road’ and former El Paso resident died of natural causes in Santa Fe, New Mexico, publisher Alfred A. Knopf said.

McCarthys prose style was sparse, grim and idiosyncratic, earning comparisons to James Joyce, Shakespeare and the King James Bible.

The Pulitzer Prize-winner was known for his works including No Country for Old Men, The Road, and All the Pretty Horses.

McCarthys ties to Santa Fe date back decades, even before he moved to the area in the 1990s.

Cormac McCarthy, whose nihilistic and violent tales of the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds led to awards, movie...