Carousel Previous Carousel Next. Cormac McCarthy (født Charles McCarthy 20. juli 1933 i Providence i Rhode Island) er en Pulitzer-prisvindende amerikansk forfatter, som primært har skrevet romaner inden for genrerne western, sydstats-gotisk og post-apokalyptisk.
Cormac McCarthy is the author of this superb novel. The gang wars in the 1850s are on the peak in the Texas-Mexico border. McCarthy's ghastly novel is based on the existence of The Glanton Gang, a band of 19th-century bounty hunters in the American Southwest.