Cormac McCarthy, the author of All the Pretty Horses, was born in Rhode Island on July 20, 1933. He was the eldest of six children, he was born to Charles Joseph and Gladys Christina McGrail McCarthy; he has two brothers and three sisters. Originally named Charles, after his father, he renamed himself Cormac after the Irish king. Raised a Roman Catholic, he attended Catholic High School in Knoxville, and then went to the University of Tennessee in 1951 to 1952 where he majored in Liberal Arts. All the Pretty Horses is one of his most respected and well known books, but he has also written The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, Suttree, and Blood Meridian. All the Pretty Horses is a book about two boys, John Grady Cole and Lacy Rawlins (both only sixteen years old), who decide that they have had enough of the Texas...