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 died of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., a representative for the author confirmed to CBC News.
McCarthy — arguably the greatest American writer since Ernest Hemingway or William Faulkner, both of whom he was sometimes compared to — was little known for the first 60 years or so of his life.
Rapturous reviews of 1992’s All the Pretty Horses, the first in McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy, changed
