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WRITER

Cormac McCarthy

1933 - 2023

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Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American writer who authored twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western and postapocalyptic genres. His works often included graphic depictions of violence, and his writing style was characterised by a sparse use of punctuation and attribution. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists.McCarthy was born in Providence, Rhode Island, although he was raised primarily in Tennessee. In 1951, he enrolled in the University of Tennessee, but dropped out to join the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cormac McCarthy has received more than 7,209,318 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Cormac McCarthy is the 1,064th most popular writer (down from 1,039th in 2019), the 1,271st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,168th in 2019) and the 129th most popular American Writer.

Cormac McCarthy is most famous for his novels The Road, No Country for Old Men, and All the Pretty Horses.

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  • 7.2M

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  • 60.51

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  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Cormac McCarthy ranks 1,064 out of 5,755Before him are Guido Cavalcanti, Robert Graves, Leonid Andreyev, Adalberon, Irwin Shaw, and Branislav Nušić. After him are Kazi Nazrul Islam, W. H. Auden, Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Madeleine de Scudéry, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, and Marcel Pagnol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Cormac McCarthy ranks 71Before him are Tomislav Ivić, Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Antonio Negri, Elizabeth Montgomery, David McCallum, and Mathieu Kérékou. After him are Robert Curl, John Mayall, Joan Collins, Liliana Cavani, The Singing Nun, and Jean-Claude Brialy. Among people deceased in 2023, Cormac McCarthy ranks 53Before him are Ryuichi Sakamoto, John B. Goodenough, Antonio Negri, David McCallum, Ivan Silayev, and Astrud Gilberto. After him are Gordon Moore, Tom Wilkinson, Dick Fosbury, Karel Schwarzenberg, Renata Scotto, and Leiji Matsumoto.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cormac McCarthy ranks 1,271 out of 18,182Before him are John Forsythe (1918), Joan Didion (1934), Dennis Rader (1945), Joseph Erlanger (1874), Irwin Shaw (1913), and Anthony Mann (1906). After him are Joseph Kosuth (1945), John Brown (1800), John Foster Dulles (1888), J. J. Cale (1938), Sam Cooke (1931), and Raymond Davis Jr. (1914).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Cormac McCarthy ranks 129Before him are Will Durant (1885), Natalie Clifford Barney (1876), Fredric Brown (1906), Erskine Caldwell (1903), Joan Didion (1934), and Irwin Shaw (1913). After him are Edith Wharton (1862), Nora Roberts (1950), Harry Harrison (1925), Virginia Henderson (1897), Michael Connelly (1956), and Ken Kesey (1935).