The Pulitzer Prize-winning author drew the reader in relentlessly to his world of blood, dust and an unforgiving universe. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK(Reuters) - 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.