After marrying fellow student Lee Holleman in 1961, McCarthy "moved to a shack with no heat and running water in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains outside of Knoxville". There the couple had a son, Cullen, in 1962. When writer James Agee's childhood home was being demolished in Knoxville that year, McCarthy took bricks from the site and with them built one or more fireplaces inside his Sevier County shack. While caring for the baby and tending to the chores of the house, Lee was asked by Cormac to also get a day job so he could focus on his novel writing. Dismayed with the situation, she moved to Wyoming, where she filed for divorce and landed her first job teaching. Random House published McCarthy's first novel, "The Orchard Keeper", in 1965. He had finished the novel while working part-time at an auto-parts warehouse in Chicago. McCarthy decided to send the manuscript to Random House because "it was the only publisher [he] had heard of." At Random House, the manuscript found its way to Albert Erskine, who had been William Faulkner's editor until Faulkner's death in 1962. Erskine continued to edit McCarthy's work for the next 20 years. Upon its release, critics noted its similarity to the work of Faulkner and praised his striking use of imagery. "The Orchard Keeper" won a 1966 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel. While living in the French Quarter in New Orleans, McCarthy was expelled from a $40-a-month room for failing to pay his rent. While traveling the country, he always carried a 100-watt bulb in his bag so he could read at night, no matter where he was sleeping. In the summer of 1965, using a Traveling Fellowship award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, McCarthy shipped out aboard the liner "Sylvania" hoping to visit Ireland. While on the ship, he met Englishwoman Anne DeLisle, who was working on the "Sylvania" as a dancer and singer. In 1966, they were married in England. Also in 1966, he received a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, which he used to travel around Southern Europe before landing in Ibiza, where he wrote his second novel, "Outer Dark" (1968). Afterward he returned to The United States with his wife, where "Outer Dark" was published to generally favorable reviews. In 1969, the couple moved to Louisville, Tennessee, and purchased a dairy barn, which McCarthy renovated, doing the stonework himself.