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Cormac McCarthy, byname of Charles McCarthy, Jr., (born July 20, 1933, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.), American writer in the Southern gothic tradition whose novels about wayward characters in the rural American South and Southwest are noted for their dark violence, dense prose, and stylistic complexity. McCarthy attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and served in the U.S. Air Force from 1953 to 1956. Readers were first introduced to McCarthy’s difficult narrative style in the no...

Cormac McCarthy, byname of Charles McCarthy, Jr., (born July 20, 1933, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.), American writer in the Southern gothic tradition whose novels about wayward characters in the rural American South and Southwest are noted for their dark violence, dense prose, and stylistic complexity. McCarthy attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and served in the U.S. Air Force from 1953 to 1956. Readers were first introduced to McCarthy’s difficult narrative style in the no...