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Cormac McCarthy

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Biography

Name: Cormac McCarthy
Birth Date: July 20, 1933
Place of Birth: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of Cormac McCarthy
3,802 words, approx. 13 pages
Cormac McCarthy, whose early novels were often set in eastern Tennessee and whose later work focuses on the American Southwest, is frequently compared with such Southern-based writers as William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor. In a...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Cormac McCarthy Information
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<div class="dablink">For the musician, see Cormac McCarthy (musician).</div> <p>Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy,<sup id="cite_ref-chicagotribune_0-0" class="reference">[1]</sup> (born July 20, 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island), is a Pulitzer...


News and Journals
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Cormac McCarthy talks to Oprah Winfrey
6/5/2007: 572 words, approx. 2 pages
Oprah Winfrey got Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy to do the one thing he hates most: talk about his work."You probably shouldn't be talking about it, you probably should be doing it," the 73-year-old author told Winfrey in a rare TV interview, which aired Tuesday...
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Oprah picks Cormac McCarthy's `The Road'
3/28/2007: 420 words, approx. 1 pages
Don't expect a lot of sunshine in Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick. Publishing's leading hit-maker has chosen Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," a bleak, apocalyptic novel by an author who rarely talks to the media."It is so extraordinary," Winfrey said Wednesday. "I promise you, you'll...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Mark Royden Winchell
7,417 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Winchell maintains that the "pyrotechnical use of language that is McCarthy's distinctive signature as a writer" is the author's greatest achievement. Winchell also discusses the influence of Faulkner on McCarthy's work and comments at length on the "revulsion" and "horror" found in the novels.
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Interview by Richard B. Woodward
4,292 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following article, Woodward conducts an interview with the elusive McCarthy, and gains many insights into the author's writing habits, his personal life, and his thoughts on his own fiction.
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Critical Review by Vereen Bell
3,674 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, Bell discusses the desires of McCarthy's characters to live in a world uncomplicated by the influences and demands the contemporary world places on them.
 


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