Cormac McCarthy (born July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, short-story writer and screenwriter. He has written ten novels, two plays, two screenplays and three short-stories, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western and post-apocalyptic genres. He is well known for his graphic depictions of violence and his unique writing style, recognizable by its lack of punctuation and attribution. The Orchard Keeper, was published in 1965, Outer Dark (1968) and Suttree (1979). A MacArthur genius grant enabled him to travel to the American Southwest, where he researched and wrote his fifth novel, Blood Meridian (1985). McCarthy first experienced widespread success with All the Pretty Horses (1992), for which he received both the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. His 2006 novel The Road won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. Many of McCarthy's works have been adapted into film Less