Cormac McCarthy was born in 1933 in Rhode Island. Early in his life his Family moved to Tennessee for his father’s work and his family was considerably more wealthy than his neighbors. He later went to be apart of the Air Force and while stationed in Alaska started his writing career. His first novel was published in 1965. He also has written two plays and has found fame and fortune in recent years for two exemplary novels, No Country for Old Men and The Road, both of which are required reading in Great American Novels and Science Fiction classes here at BSM.
His books have definitely made an impact in the world of writing but why?
He is definitely a different writer with little use of punctuation and he uses fairly simple sentences and his reasoning is very clear, “there is no reason to blot up the page with weird little marks.” His more recent novels depict a very bleak and dark world and some believe that to have happened because of 9/11 and because of this he is referred to as “the great pessimist of American literature.”
There is a reason that his bleak work is so popular and i think it is because of how true it is! People tend to avoid dark/ scary things because of the potential truth that could be found and McCarthy capitalizes off of that.
Great American Novels 2020 
I find it interesting how different the writing styles of the authors are for the books that we have read in this class so far. With McCarthy and Hemingway’s unique use of punctuation, and combined with Steinbeck’s distinctive style he used in “The Grapes of Wrath” I sure have been exposed to many new types of literature in this class!
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