Cormac McCarthy (born
Charles McCarthy; July 20, 1933) is an
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He has written ten novels, spanning the
Southern Gothic,
western, and
post-apocalyptic genres. He won the
Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for
The Road (2006). His 2005 novel
No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007
film of the same name, which won four
Academy Awards, including
Best Picture. For
All the Pretty Horses (1992), he won both the U.S.
National Book Award and
National Book Critics Circle Award.
All the Pretty Horses,
The Road, and
Child of God have also been
adapted as motion pictures.