Facts about Cormac McCarthy Novels
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McCarthy's 1985 novel Blood Meridian contains approximately 337,000 words and features over 150 named characters across its violent depiction of a scalp-hunting expedition in the 1850s.
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McCarthy's novel All the Pretty Horses won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1992, launching his Border Trilogy.
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Suttree, one of Cormac McCarthy's most autobiographical novels, took him nearly twenty years to write and was published in 1979.
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Blood Meridian, widely considered among Cormac McCarthy's most ambitious novels, is based on historical events along the Texas-Mexico border in the 1840s.
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No Country for Old Men, a Cormac McCarthy novel published in 2005, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film by the Coen Brothers in 2007.
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The Road, a Cormac McCarthy novel about a father and son surviving a post-apocalyptic world, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.
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Cormac McCarthy novels are often associated with the American South and Southwest, spanning genres from Southern Gothic to Western.