Cormac McCarthy, celebrated US novelist, dies aged 89

Author of Blood Meridian, The Road and No Country for Old Men died in his home of natural causes, publisher announcesCormac McCarthy, the revered novelist whose bleakly violent, apocalyptic visions of the American south drew him fans from Oprah Winfrey to Saul Bellow, has died at the age of 89.McCarthy died in his home of natural causes. His son John confirmed the death. Continue reading...