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Cormac McCarthy, whose nihilistic and violent tales of the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds led to awards, movie adaptations and sleepless nights for his enthralled and appalled readers, died on Tuesday at the age of 89.
His novels were poetic and spare, poignant yet unsentimental. He won a Pulitzer for 'The Road' and was also known for his savage western 'Blood Meridian.'
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Cormac McCarthy, whose nihilistic and violent tales of the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds led to awards, movie adaptations and sleepless nights for his enthralled and appalled readers, died on Tuesday at the age of 89. McCarthy - arguably the greatest American writer since Ernest Hemingway or William Faulkner, both of whom he was sometimes compared to - died of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, according to a statement from publisher Penguin Random House that cited his son, John McCarthy. Little known for the first 60 years or so of his life, rapturous reviews of 1992's "All the Pretty Horses" - the first in "The Border Trilogy" - changed all that.