NEW YORK: Celebrated author Cormac McCarthy, an unflinching chronicler of America’s bleak frontiers and grim underbelly, died on Tuesday aged 89, his publisher said.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who wrote “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” — both of which became feature films — passed away at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Over his nearly six-decade long career, McCarthy won major literary awards and gained international acclaim for a dozen sparsely written, soul-wrenching novels.
Considered a demanding but honest writer, his clinical descriptions of inner torment…
