Cormac McCarthy, whose nihilistic and violent tales of the United States frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds led to awards, movie adaptations and sleepless nights for his enthralled and appalled readers, has died on Tuesday at the age of 89.McCarthy — arguably the greatest US writer since Ernest Hemingway or William Faulkner, both of whom he was sometimes compared to — died of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, according to a statement from publisher Penguin Random House, citing his son John McCarthy.Little known for the first 60 years or so of his life, McCarthy rose to prominence following rapturous reviews for 1992’s All the Pretty Horses, the first in his The Border Trilogy.
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