Eleven Texas Writers Remember Cormac McCarthy
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Sarah Bird, Fernando A. Flores, Mary Helen Specht, Sergio Troncoso, James Wade, and six more Texas writers reflect on what McCarthy meant to them and to the state.
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Cormac McCarthy : The Wittliff Collections
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Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men, dead at 89
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Cormac McCarthy, Creator of the Anti-Western Novel, Dies at 89
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Cormac McCarthy's Unforgiving Parables of American Empire
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No Country for Old Men' author Cormac McCarthy dies at 89
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Cormac McCarthy's deep Texas ties: 'For him, it was a whole new world
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In memoriam: Remembering the authors we lost in 2023
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Cormac Country
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Cormac McCarthy became a legend among Texas writers and inspired them
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Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Road' and 'No Country For Old Men,' dies at 89