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Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy; July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres. He won the Pulitzer Prize〔 and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for ''The Road'' (2006). His 2005 novel ''No Country for Old Men'' was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. For ''All the Pretty Horses'' (1992), he won both the U.S. National Book Award〔 and National Book Critics Circle Award. ''All the Pretty Horses'', ''The Road'', and ''Child of God'' have also been adapted as motion pictures. ''Blood Meridian'' (1985) was among ''Time'' magazine's list of 100 best English-language books published between 1923 and 2005〔 Retrieved on 2008-06-03.〕 and placed joint runner-up in a poll taken in 2006 by ''The New York Times'' of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years.〔 Retrieved on 2008-06-03.〕 Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, alongside Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth, and called ''Blood Meridian'' "the greatest single book since Faulkner's ''As I Lay Dying''". In 2010, ''The Times'' ranked ''The Road'' first on its list of the 100 best fiction and non-fiction books of the past 10 years. ==Writing career== Random House published McCarthy's first novel, ''The Orchard Keeper'', in 1965. McCarthy decided to send the manuscript to Random House because "it was the only publisher () had heard of". At Random House, the manuscript found its way to Albert Erskine, who had been William Faulkner's editor until Faulkner's death in 1962. Erskine continued to edit McCarthy's work for the next 20 years. In the summer of 1965, using a Traveling Fellowship award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, McCarthy shipped out aboard the liner ''Sylvania'', hoping to visit Ireland. While on the ship, he met Anne DeLisle, who was working on the '' Sylvania'' as a singer. In 1966, they were married in England. Also in 1966, McCarthy received a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, which he used to travel around Southern Europe before landing in Ibiza, where he wrote his second novel, ''Outer Dark'' (1968). Afterward he returned to America with his wife, and ''Outer Dark'' was published to generally favorable reviews.〔 〕 In 1969, the couple moved to Louisville, Tennessee and purchased a barn, which McCarthy renovated, doing the stonework himself.〔 Here he wrote his next book, ''Child of God'' (1973), based on actual events. Like ''Outer Dark'' before it, ''Child of God'' was set in southern Appalachia. In 1976, McCarthy separated from Anne DeLisle and moved to El Paso, Texas. In 1979, his novel ''Suttree'', which he had been writing on and off for 20 years,〔 was finally published. Supporting himself with the money from his 1981 MacArthur Fellowship, McCarthy wrote his next novel, ''Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West'' (1985). The book has grown appreciably in stature in literary circles; in a 2006 poll of authors and publishers conducted by ''The New York Times Magazine'' to list the greatest American novels of the previous quarter-century, ''Blood Meridian'' placed third, behind only Toni Morrison's ''Beloved'' (1987) and Don DeLillo's ''Underworld'' (1997). In 1992, an article in the ''New York Times'' noted that none of his novels published to that point had sold more than 5,000 hardcover copies in, and that "for most of his career, he did not even have an agent". McCarthy finally received widespread recognition after the publication of ''All the Pretty Horses'' (1992), when it won the National Book Award〔 and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was followed by ''The Crossing'' (1994) and ''Cities of the Plain'' (1998), completing the Border Trilogy. In the midst of this trilogy came ''The Stonemason'' (first performed in 1995), McCarthy's second dramatic work. He had previously written a film for PBS,'' The Gardener's Son'' which aired January 6, 1977. McCarthy's next book, ''No Country for Old Men'' (2005), stayed with the western setting and themes yet moved to a more contemporary period. The Coen brothers adapted it into a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards and more than 75 film awards globally. McCarthy's next book, ''The Road'' (2006), won international acclaim and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction;〔 a 2009 film adaptation was directed by John Hillcoat, written by Joe Penhall, and starred Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Also in 2006, McCarthy published the play ''The Sunset Limited''; he adapted it for an HBO film (airdate February 2011) directed and executive produced by Tommy Lee Jones, and starring Jones opposite Samuel L. Jackson. In 2012, McCarthy sold his original screenplay, ''The Counselor'', to Nick Wechsler, Paula Mae Schwartz, and Steve Schwartz, who had previously produced the film adaptation of McCarthy's novel ''The Road''. Ridley Scott directed, and the cast included Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, and Cameron Diaz. Production finished in 2012, and it was released on October 25, 2013, to polarized critical reception. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cormac McCarthy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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