Cormac McCarthy, lauded author of The Road and No Country for Old Men, dies at 89

Little known to the public at age 60, Cormac McCarthy would become one of the country’s most honored and successful writers despite rarely talking to the press. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy has died at the age of 89. Picture: AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File

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 Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, died Tuesday. He was 89.

McCarthy died of natural causes in Santa Fe, New Mexico, publisher Alfred A. Knopf said.