Just when things were really, really bleak, something would happen,” said McCarthy, who won a MacArthur Fellowship — one of the so-called “genius grants” — in 1981.

Cormac McCarthy, who died last week at 89, had a famously unusual career. His first five novels, published over two decades, earned him considerable critical respect but were commercial failures ...

Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country For Old Men,’ dies at 89 McCarthy died of natural causes in Santa Fe, New Mexico, publisher Alfred A. Knopf said.

Just when things were really, really bleak, something would happen,” said McCarthy, who won a MacArthur Fellowship — one of the so-called “genius grants” — in 1981.

Two hours before a 2006 performance at Steppenwolf Theatre, writer Cormac McCarthy asked actor Austin Pendleton an unexpected question.

Just when things were really, really bleak, something would happen,” said McCarthy, who won a MacArthur Fellowship — one of the so-called “genius grants” — in 1981.

McCarthy was a recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, also known colloquially as a “Genius Grant,” which the author used to travel through the American Southwest in the early 1980s. Here, ...

Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as "The Road," "Blood ...

Just when things were really, really bleak, something would happen,” said McCarthy, who won a MacArthur Fellowship — one of the so-called “genius grants” — in 1981.

Just when things were really, really bleak, something would happen,” said McCarthy, who won a MacArthur Fellowship — one of the so-called “genius grants” — in 1981.