History Creator / CormacMcCarthy

* KarmaHoudini: The three murderous strangers of ''Outer Dark''.

** "They rode on" is the most frequently used sentence in ''Literature/BloodMeridian.''
* HistoricalFiction: A lot of his works tend to be period pieces, most notably ''Literature/BloodMeridian''.

* PurpleProse : Often mixed in with his BeigeProse and he is damn good at it.
** "The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off"-Blood Meridan.

* TheWildWest: A lot of Western tropes crop up in his work, usually relocating them to the Modern era, or in the case of ''Blood Meridian'', giving them a darkly Revisionist twist.

!!His works include:

!!'''Recurring themes and elements:'''
* AntiHero

* BeigeProse: Often used. However, he also often uses words that people who aced the UsefulNotes/SATs would have to look up. It all depends on the book.
* CrapsackWorld
* DownerEnding
* {{Gorn}}: Many of his works contain very grotesque amounts of violence and gore.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Most of his characters are morally ambiguous, although genuine villains do crop up from time to time.

* HumansAreBastards
* KarmaHoudini

* ShownTheirWork: His historical fiction is known to be extensively researched.

Cormac [=McCarthy=] (born July 20, 1933) is an American novelist who has steadily risen in stature over the past 20 years. Though he has written since the 1960s, it was the publication of his book ''Literature/AllThePrettyHorses'' in 1992, and its subsequent cinematic adaptation, that brought him widespread recognition.

--> ''"I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems''
--> ''worth doing."''

[[caption-width-right:213:Looks like someones granddad. Writes stuff that would make Pol Pot cry.]]

Cormac [=McCarthy=] is an American novelist who has steadily risen in stature over the past 20 years. Though he has written since the 1960s, it was the publication of his book ''All the Pretty Horses'' in 1992, and its subsequent cinematic adaptation, that brought him widespread recognition.

Interest in [=McCarthy=] skyrocketed after Creator/TheCoenBrothers' Oscar-winning adaptation of his novel ''NoCountryForOldMen'' and the adaptation of ''Literature/TheRoad''.

[[folder:Works he has credit in]]

* ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen''
* ''Film/TheSunsetLimited''
* ''Literature/TheRoad''
* ''Literature/BloodMeridian''
* ''Literature/ChildOfGod''

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!!'''Recurring Themes & Elements:'''

** "Carrying the fire" shows up in ''NoCountryForOldMen'' and ''Literature/TheRoad'', and is obliquely referenced at the end of ''Literature/BloodMeridian''.
** "Call it" showed up in ''All the Pretty Horses'' before it became a motif throughout ''NoCountryForOldMen''.

* BeigeProse: Often used. However, he also often uses words that people who aced the SATs would have to look up. It all depends on the book.

A reclusive author, [=McCarthy=] surprised everybody, when he agreed to give his first-ever television interview after [[TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah Winfrey]] selected ''Literature/TheRoad'' for her famous Book Club.

* {{Troll}}: Once helped edit a business paper for a friend. How did he edit it? He removed all the commas, [[http://www.avclub.com/article/road-author-cormac-mccarthy-once-removed-all-comma-247998 much to the horror of said friend's editor]].

* {{Troll}}: Once helped edit a business paper for a friend. How did he edit it? He removed all the commas, [[http://www.avclub.com/article/road-author-cormac-mccarthy-once-removed-all-comma-247998 much to the shock of said friend's editor]].

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** "The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off"-Blood Meridan

* ReclusiveArtist : Prior to 2007, at least.

* DoingItForTheArt: He seems to take this view towards his writing career. Though he has always been critically acclaimed, his audience has expanded significantly since he started out, growing from just a few thousand readers to ''millions'' of them--but in spite of this, he claims that he'd be just as happy if he'd stayed relatively unknown, and that getting the chance to write is its own reward.

** "They rode on" is the most frequently used sentence in ''BloodMeridian.''

* SouthernGothic: His pre-''BloodMeridian'' work, in stark contrast to the Westerns he's most famous for.

* TheAntiNihilist: What "carrying the fire" means.

Cormac [=McCarthy=] is an American novelist who has steadily risen in stature in the past 10 years. Though he has written since the 1960s, it was the publication of his book ''All the Pretty Horses'' in 1992, and its subsequent cinematic adaptation, that brought him widespread recognition.

* NoPunctuationPeriod: [=McCarthy=] has a number of stylistic idiosyncrasies, but his most pronounced is his continual refusal to use quotation marks, as well as an aversion to apostrophes when using contractions. Another quirk of his is that in many, if not all, of his books, there is not a single exclamation mark. At all. In an interview he stated it's just because he doesn't want to clutter up the page.

His reputation as one of the best living American writers was cemented in the placing of his book ''Literature/BloodMeridian'', or the Evening Redness in the West behind Don Delillo's ''Underworld'' and Toni Morrison's ''Beloved'' in a New York Times poll of the Greatest American novels of the last 25 years.

* ReclusiveArtist : Prior to 2007 at least.