Early life
Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on July 20, 1933, one of six… See more

Syntax
McCarthy used punctuation sparsely, even replacing most commas with "and" to create … See more

In 2003, literary critic Harold Bloom named McCarthy as one of the four major living American novelists, alongside Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, and Philip Roth. … See more

McCarthy was a teetotaler. According to Richard B. Woodward, "McCarthy doesn't drink anymore – he quit 16 years ago [i.e. in 1976] in El Paso, with one of his young girlfriends – and … See more

• Frye, Steven (2009). Understanding Cormac McCarthy. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-839-6.
• Frye, Steven, ed. (2013). The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy. Cambridge: Cambridge… See more