Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy, the author behind The Road, has also written many other well renowned and reviewed novels. The Road won both the  Pulitzer Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. His arguably next most well known book No Country for Old Men was adapted into a movie and won four academy awards. Compared o William Faulkner by many modern critics, McCarthy's works have been published by the same man that published Faulkner's up until his death. Throughout McCarthy's lengthy career he has accumulated a multitude of grants and awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, and the Faulkner Prize, both highly prestigious awards to be given.