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Cormac McCarthy

(
1933
2023
)
El Paso, TX
Writer (novelist, playwright)
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature
Elected
1994

Cormac McCarthy was an American writer who wrote twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and two short stories, spanning the Western and post-apocalyptic genres. He was well known for his graphic depictions of violence and his unique writing style, recognizable by sparse use of punctuation and attribution.

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