What is Cormac McCarthy?
{{Infobox writer | name = Cormac McCarthy | image = File:Cormac McCarthy (Outer Dark author portrait).jpg | caption = McCarthy (1968) | birth_name = Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. | birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|7|20|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Providence, Rhode Island]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=y|2023|6|13|1933|7|20}} | death_place = [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]], U.S. | occupation = Novelist, playwright, screenwriter | nationality = American | genre = [[Southern gothic]], [[Western fiction|western]], [[Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction|post-apocalyptic]] | notableworks = ''[[Suttree]]'' (1979)<br>''[[Blood Meridian]]'' (1985)<br>''[[All the Pretty Horses (novel)|All the Pretty Horses]]'' (1992)<br>''[[No Country for Old Men]]'' (2005)<br>''[[The Road]]'' (2006) | spouse = {{Marriage|Lee Holleman|1961|1962|reason=divorced}}<br />{{Marriage|Annie DeLisle|1967|1981|reason=divorced}}<br />{{Marriage|Jennifer Winkley|1997|2006|reason=divorced}} | children = 2 | signature = Cormac McCarthy signature.svg }} '''Cormac McCarthy''' (born '''Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.''';<ref name= newmillenniumwritings >{{cite news| author = Don Williams| title = Cormac McCarthy Crosses the Great Divide| url = http://newmillenniumwritings.com/Issue14/CormacMcCarthy.html| publisher = [[New Millennium Writings]]| access-date = 2018-03-09| archive-date = 2016-03-03| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171328/http://newmillenniumwritings.com/Issue14/CormacMcCarthy.html| url-status = dead}}</ref> July 20, 1933 &ndash; June 13, 2023) was an American [[Novel|novelist]], [[playwright]], and [[screenwriter]].<ref name=nytint> {{cite news|last=Woodward|first=Richard|title=Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 17, 1998|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/specials/mccarthy-venom.html|access-date=July 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200320203435/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/spe