Cormac McCarthy, author of 'No Country for Old Men,' dies at 90

Cormac McCarthy, the American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, died in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1933, he moved with his family to Tennessee in 1937. After dropping out of university, he served four years in the U.S. Army. His first novel, 'The Orchard Keeper,' was published in 1965. McCarthy won the National Book Award in 1992 for 'All the Pretty Horses' and the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for 'The Road.' His novel 'No Country for Old Men' was adapted into an Oscar-winning film by the Coen brothers in 2008. Critic Harold Bloom named him one of the four major American novelists of his time, alongside Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, and Thomas Pynchon. McCarthy was considered a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His final novel, 'Stella Maris,' was published posthumously in 2023.