79th Birthday for novelist Cormac McCarthy (details of THE_COUNSELOR)

the birthday "news" from American Public Media's daily show The Writer's Almanac (Minnesota Public Radio, Garrison Keillor):

July 20 is the 79th birthday of novelist Cormac McCarthy (1933). He was born Charles McCarthy Jr. in Providence, Rhode Island. He's best known as the author of the "Border Trilogy" -- All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the Plain (1998). Richard Woodward, of the New York Review of Books, called him, "A man's novelist whose apocalyptic vision rarely focuses on women, McCarthy doesn't write about sex, love or domestic issues."

His novel The Road (2006) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Earlier this year he announced that he had written a screenplay, called The Counselor. Not too much is known about the project, but it's been described as "[McCarthy's 2005 novel] No Country for Old Men on steroids." Ridley Scott is set to direct the film.