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- NAME: Cormac McCarthy
- OCCUPATION: Author, Playwright
- BIRTH DATE: July 20, 1933 (Age: 79)
- EDUCATION: University of Tennessee
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Providence, Rhode Island
- ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer
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Cormac McCarthy is a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist best known for his Border Trilogy, including All the Pretty Horses.
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Cormac McCarthy was born on July 20, 1933 in Providence, RI. He attended the University of Tennessee and served in the Air Force. McCarthy achieved popular fame with All the Pretty Horses, winner of the National Book Award and the first volume in his Border Trilogy. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his postapocalyptic novel, The Road. McCarthy's works have been adapted into critically acclaimed films.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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