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 author who wrote twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western, postapocalyptic, and Southern Gothic genres. His works often include graphic depictions of violence, and his writing style is characterised by a sparse use of punctuation and attribution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cormac McCarthy has received more than 7,983,491 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Cormac McCarthy is the 888th most popular writer (up from 1,062nd in 2019), the 985th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,271st in 2019) and the 93rd most popular American Writer.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The crossing
1994
Blood Meridian
1985
The Road
Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Media Tie-In
<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER</b><br> <br> <b>PULITZER PRIZE WINNER</b><br> <b>National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist</b><br> <br> <b>A<i>New York Times</i>Notable Book</b><br> <b>One of the Best Books of the Year</b><br> <b><i>The Boston Globe</i>,<i>The Christian Science Monitor</i>,<i>The Denver Post</i>,<i>The Kansas City Star</i>,<i>Los Angeles Times</i>,<i>New York</i>,<i>People</i>,<i>Rocky Mountain News</i>,<i>Time</i>,<i>The Village Voice</i>,<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br> <br> The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.<br> <br> A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.<br> <br> <b>The Road</b>is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.<br> <br> <br> <i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>
20044 / 5
All the Pretty Horses
1992
Cities of the Plain
Fiction
The conclusion of the Border trilogy describes the friendship of John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys working on a New Mexico ranch in the 1950s
19984 / 5
Suttree
1979

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Cormac McCarthy ranks 888 out of 7,302. Before him are Joseph Campbell, Theodoret, Fatema Mernissi, Marko Marulić, Jorge Semprún, and Marilyn vos Savant. After him are Julien Green, Silius Italicus, Kobayashi Issa, Hans Fallada, Tukaram, and Ben Jonson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Cormac McCarthy ranks 57. Before him are Stanley Milgram, Edward de Bono, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bobby Robson, Wilbur Smith, and Ilia II of Georgia. After him are Yevgeny Yevtushenko, John Gurdon, Tomislav Ivić, Philip Zimbardo, Mathieu Kérékou, and Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud. Among people deceased in 2023, Cormac McCarthy ranks 66. Before him are Mark Margolis, Astrud Gilberto, Dubravka Ugrešić, Alain Touraine, Gianluca Vialli, and Harry Markowitz. After him are Tony Bennett, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Gordon Moore, Mary Quant, Elliott Erwitt, and Roger Whittaker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cormac McCarthy ranks 985 out of 20,380. Before him are Richard Dreyfuss (1947), Jonathan Demme (1944), Marilyn vos Savant (1946), Queen Noor of Jordan (1951), Tippi Hedren (1930), and Harry Markowitz (1927). After him are Matt Groening (1954), Nat Turner (1800), Martha Graham (1894), Éamon de Valera (1882), James Tobin (1918), and Frances Marion (1888).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Cormac McCarthy ranks 93. Before him are Neale Donald Walsch (1943), John Fante (1909), Ambrose Bierce (1842), Dashiell Hammett (1894), Joseph Campbell (1904), and Marilyn vos Savant (1946). After him are Daniel Goleman (1946), Roger Zelazny (1937), Sherwood Anderson (1876), L. Ron Hubbard (1911), Walter Lippmann (1889), and Thomas Wolfe (1900).

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