Novelist - Screenwriter Cormac McCarthy is 80 today -- July 20, 2013

from Writer's Almanac (American Public Media - Garrison Keillor) July 20 is the birthday of novelist and screenwriter 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). In The New York Times Magazine, Richard B. Woodward, 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. His latest screenplay, The Counselor, about a lawyer who finds himself in over his head when he gets entangled in drug trafficking, is set to be released this November. Ridley Scott is directing the film.