Death of Cormac McCarthy, 89, author of Road Not Country for Old Men.

The man described by Stephen King as one of the greatest writers of his time is no more. American author Cormac McCarthy, who achieved late success with cult novels such as No Country for Old Men and The Road, died of natural causes on Tuesday at the age of 89, his publisher said.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island in July 1933, Cormac McCarthy found his first critical success with his first novel. garden guardIn 1965, it was published in the United States, which would allow him to live from his pen, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1979, he moved to El Paso, Texas. A region that deeply marks his literary work.

If McCarthy is a critically-acclaimed writer, his first books sell in private: none of his first five works sell more than 3,000 copies.

In 1992, Cormac McCarthy published his sixth novel, Such Beautiful Horses, Volume One. The Edge Trilogywhich will be converted into a cinema in 2000. This book brought him wider acclaim: the National Book Award for Excellence and the National Book Critics Circle Award, selling 190,000 copies in six months.

In 2005, he published his ninth novel, No, this country is not for old people. A portrait of an America plagued by cartel violence, this extraordinary book would be brilliantly adapted by the Coen brothers barely three years later and win four Oscars, including Best Supporting Actor for the terrifying Javier Bardem. As the murderer Anton Chigurh.

Here again, below, is the trailer for the Coen brothers’ masterpiece.

In 2006, Cormac McCarthy won the highly prestigious Pulitzer Prize for his novel. Waywhich will sell 4 million copies in the US and will be translated into 48 languages.

This father and son’s wanderings in post-apocalyptic America will also be heavily adapted for the big screen under the direction of John Hillcott, with Viggo Mortensen as the father.

A writer who lived rather reclusively in his residence in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and felt that there was never or very little need to explain his novels, Cormac McCarthy gave very few interviews during his career.

It will throw an exception when released Wayassignment a Interview With the queen of television, Oprah Winfrey. A writer ultimately not very prolific (barely 10 novels, including a trilogy), a chronicler of Appalachian America and the dark and brutal Far West, Cormac McCarthy leaves a great mark on literature.