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Cormac McCarthy was born in Providence, Rhode Island on July 20th, 1933.
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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.
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McCarthy won the Ingram Merrill Award for Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee
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McCarthy's first novel, The Orchard Keeper is published.
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McCarthy wins the Faulkner Award for Notable First Novel
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McCarthy's book Child of God is published. Book receives high praise from critics.
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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.
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McCarthy received the MacArthur Fellowship for showing continued exceptional merit and promise with creative works.
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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
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The first of McCarthy's Border Trilogy (All the Pretty Horses) is published.
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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.
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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.
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McCarthy wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his post-apocalypic novel The Road.
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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."
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McCarthy's first original screenplay, The Counselor, will be released in theaters on the 25th of October in 2013.
