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Knowledge Identifier: +Cormac_McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist and playwright
Category: Literature
Born in 1933.
Countries: United States (59%), Spain (8%), Ireland (5%)
Main connections: The Road, The Road (2009 film), Richard Matheson
Linked to: The New York Times, University Press of Mississippi, Random House, Rockefeller Foundation
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Cormac McCarthy was born in 1933
Deadlight - " He cites as influences on the story Richard Matheson's 1954 novel "I Am Legend", Stephen King's 2006 novel "Cell", Cormac McCarthy's 2006 novel "The Road", and Robert Kirkman's comic book series "The Walking Dead"
Deadlight - " He cites as influences on the story Richard Matheson's 1954 novel "I Am Legend", Stephen King's 2006 novel "Cell", Cormac McCarthy's 2006 novel "The Road", and Robert Kirkman's comic book series "The Walking Dead"
While at UT he published two stories in The Phoenix and was awarded the Ingram-Merrill Award for creative writing in 1959 and 1960.
At Random House, the manuscript found its way to Albert Erskine, who had been William Faulkner's editor until Faulkner's death in 1962.
The Olivetti Lettera 32 has been in his care for 46 years, since 1963.
McCarthy's first novel, The Orchard Keeper, was published by Random House in 1965.
Carthy 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.
In 1966, they were married in England.
Carthy renovated, even doing the stonework himself.
Child of God was published in 1973.
In 1979, his novel Suttree, which he had been writing on and off for twenty years, was finally published.
Supporting himself with the money from his 1981 MacArthur Fellowship, he wrote his next novel, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West, which was published in 1985.
Samuel Chamberlain - " It was the primary source for author Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel "Blood Meridian
Walter De Maria - "The Lightning Field" might have influenced the imagery of author Cormac McCarthy's epilogue in his 1985 novel, "Blood Meridian"
McCarthy finally received widespread recognition in 1992 with the publication of All the Pretty Horses, which won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Carthy's novel All the Pretty Horses was made into a film directed by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz.
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No Country for Old Men (film) - The adaptation was to be the second of McCarthy's work, following the 2000 film "All the Pretty Horses"
McCarthy's 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted into a 2007 Academy Award-winning film directed by the Coen Brothers and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem.
Carthy published the play The Sunset Limited.
Carthy's 2006 novel The Road as the April 2007 selection for her Book Club.
Carthy's 2006 play The Sunset Limited aired on HBO in February 2011.
The Road - "'The Road"' is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy
The Road (2009 film) - In November 2006, producer Nick Wechsler used independent financing to acquire film rights to adapt the 2006 novel "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Carthy agreed to his first television interview, which aired on The Oprah Winfrey Show on June 5, 2007.
Carthy and the Coen Brothers, on the eve of their adaptation of McCarthy's No Country for Old Men. During the conversation, McCarthy talked about his taste in cinema, claiming he's "not that big a fan of exotic foreign films" and citing Five Easy Pieces and Days of Heaven as "good movies" while praising the Coens' own Miller's Crossing as "a very, very fine movie".
No Country for Old Men (film) - "'No Country for Old Men"' is a 2007 American neo-Western thriller directed, written, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name
Viggo Mortensen - Other well-received films in recent years have included "Appaloosa" and the 2009 film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road"
Viggo Mortensen - In 2009 he joined the cast of "The Road", a film adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, and collaborated with David Cronenberg for a third time on "A Dangerous Method"
Joe Penhall - Penhall however adapted a Cormac McCarthy's book "The Road" in 2009 for film which starred Viggo Mortensen for which he revieved wide praise and he says is his best produced screen work
Michael K. Williams - Williams played the role of The Thief in the 2009 film "The Road", an adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name
The Road (2009 film) - "'The Road"' is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic drama film directed by John Hillcoat from a screenplay written by Joe Penhall, which is in return based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2006 novel of the same name by American author Cormac McCarthy
John Hillcoat - His film "The Road", based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, premiered at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival, and was released in the U.S. in November 2009
The play was adapted for film by the playwright for a version directed and executive produced by Tommy Lee Jones; it began airing on HBO in February 2011.
In 2012, he sold his first original screenplay "The Counselor "to Nick Wechsler, Paula Mae Schwartz, and Steve Schwartz, who had previously produced the film adaptation of McCarthy's novel The Road
Production finished in 2012, and it is due for an October 25th, 2013 release
The Counselor - On January 18, 2012, it was reported that novelist Cormac McCarthy had sold his first spec script, "The Counselor", to Nick Wechsler, Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz, who had previously produced the film adaptation of McCarthy's novel "The Road"
Michael Fassbender - In February 2012, Fassbender signed on to play a title role as a lawyer in "The Counselor", a film directed by Ridley Scott and based on the Cormac McCarthy script
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Child of God (film) - "'Child of God"' is a 2013 American crime-drama film co-written and directed by James Franco, and starring Scott Haze, based on the novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy
The Counselor - "'The Counselor"' is a 2013 British-American thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Cormac McCarthy
Fabio Sonzogni - On February 21, 2014 in Florence, Teatro Cantiere Florida, he is performing and directing "Sunset Limited", by Cormac McCarthy
Fabio Sonzogni - In November 2014 he will performe "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
In a 2017 essay titled "The Kekulé Problem", McCarthy analyzed a dream of August Kekulé's as a model of the unconscious mind and the origins of language
