and he makes judicious use of it in his illuminating study of McCarthy's Irish and Catholic cultural inheritance. My article, “Robert Coles and Cormac McCarthy: A Case Study of Literary Patronage,” is ...

American novelist Cormac McCarthy's 12 books are widely considered some of the best literature of the modern canon, and he is often ranked among the greatest American writers ever. Charles Joseph ...

The previously unknown "muse" of famed novelist Cormac McCarthy has revealed herself in a Vanity Fair profile, published Wednesday. Complete with excerpts from love letters and the first-hand ...

Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia and the American Southwest, died on June 12, 2023, at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. McCarthy’s fiction took a dark view of ...

Scholar Dianne C. Luce notes that at the time, Cormac McCarthy was living in Knoxville, just a couple hours up the highway from Chattanooga, where the local papers also covered the Lula Lake murders.