Cormac McCarthy, a beloved American author, has died at the age of 89.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road and No Country for Old Men, both of which were made into films, died at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

McCarthy earned major literary honours and received international praise for a dozen sparingly written, soul-wrenching novels throughout his almost six-decade career.

His clinical portraits of inner pain and the backwoods of America earned him a fiercely loyal audience. He was regarded as a tough but honest writer.

McCarthy was born on July 20, 1933, in Providence, Rhode Island, and his family relocated to Tennessee when he was four years old. There, his father worked as a lawyer.

McCarthy was married three times and had two boys. He was reclusive and noted for living a life with minimal material pleasures – for years, he lived in hotels.

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