The acclaimed novelist published 'The Passenger' and 'Stella Maris' last year
McCarthy died of natural causes in Santa Fe, N.M., publisher Alfred A. Knopf said.
McCarthy’s own story was one of belated, and continuing, achievement and popularity. Little known to the public at age 60, he would become one of the country’s most honored and successful writers despite rarely talking to the press. He broke through commercially in 1992 withand over the next 15 years won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer, was a guest on Oprah Winfrey’s show and saw his noveladapted by the Coen brothers into an Oscar-winning movie.
McCarthy dedicated the book to his son, John Francis, and said having a child as an older man “forces the world on you, and I think it’s a good thing.” The Pulitzer committee called his book “the profoundly moving story of a journey.”
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