(born July 20, 1933, Providence, R.I., U.S.) U.S. novelist. He grew up in Tennessee and dropped out of the University of Tennessee to join the Air Force.
He began writing in 1959. His novels, known for their natural observation, morbid realism, and violence, are in the Southern gothic tradition. They include The Orchard Keeper (1965), Outer Dark (1968), Blood Meridian (1985), and the widely read Border Trilogy (All the Pretty Horses, 1992; The Crossing, 1994; Cities of the Plain, 1998). The postapocalyptic The Road (2006; Pulitzer Prize) centres on a father and son struggling to survive after a disaster has all but destroyed the U.S.
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