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Birth
Cormac McCarthy was born in Providence, Rhode Island on July 20th, 1933. -
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The Life and Selected Works of Cormac McCarthy
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College
McCarthy enrolled at the University of Tennessee where he studied creative writing. He spent many years in and out of school and never actually graduated. -
Ingram Merrill Award
McCarthy won the Ingram Merrill Award for Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee -
First Novel Published
McCarthy's first novel, The Orchard Keeper is published. -
William Faulkner Award
McCarthy wins the Faulkner Award for Notable First Novel -
Child of God
McCarthy's book Child of God is published. Book receives high praise from critics. -
Suttree Published
Suttree is published. Like everything else McCarthy had written, it received great praise. It is now considered one of the greatest American novels of all-time. -
MacArthur Fellowship
McCarthy received the MacArthur Fellowship for showing continued exceptional merit and promise with creative works. -
Blood Meridian
Bllood Meridian is published. It's one hundreds of individual writing awards and it is considered one of the 100 greatest fictional works in America's history -
The Border Trilogy
The first of McCarthy's Border Trilogy (All the Pretty Horses) is published. -
No Country for Old Men
NCFOM is published. Like many of McCarthy's previous works, it wins numerous awards. The novel was also adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Oscar winning film. -
The Road
After all of his classic American literature, The Road is published and it may be his crowning achievement. The great author considers this story to be his life's greatest work. -
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
McCarthy wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his post-apocalypic novel The Road. -
Saul Bellow Award
McCarthy wins the Saul Bellow Award for a career whose writing "possesses qualities of excellence, ambition, and scale of achievement over a sustained career which place him or her in the highest rank of American literature." -
First Original Screenplay
McCarthy's first original screenplay, The Counselor, will be released in theaters on the 25th of October in 2013.
