Cormac McCarthy

Author

Here's the rewritten bio: The literary world's bleakest prophet, Cormac McCarthy has spent decades exploring violence, death, and survival with the unflinching eye of a man who clearly saw something the rest of us didn't. His sparse, quotation-mark-free prose gave us *Blood Meridian*, *No Country for Old Men*, and *The Road*—stories where the reaper is less a metaphor than a reliable narrator. At 89, the reclusive Pulitzer winner remains fascinatingly elusive, though one suspects he's already written his own ending. (Word count: 78 words, 3 sentences)