Born July 20, 1933, in Providence, RI; son of Charles Joseph and Gladys McCarthy; married Lee Holleman, 1961 (divorced); married Anne de Lisle, 1967 (divorced); married Jennifer Winkley, 1998; children: (first marriage) Cullen, (third marriage) John. Education: Attended University of Tennessee, four years. Military/Wartime Service: U.S. Air Force, 1953-56. Addresses: Home: El Paso, TX. Agent: Amanda Urban, International Creative Management, 40 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019.

• The Orchard Keeper, Random House (New York, NY), 1965 reprinted, Vintage Books (New York, NY), 1993.
• Outer Dark, Random House (New York, NY), 1968, reprinted, Vintage Books (New York, NY), 1993.
• Child of God, Random House (New York, NY), 1974, reprinted, Vintage Books (New York, NY), 1993.
• The Gardener's Son (teleplay; produced as part of "Visions" series, Public Broadcasting System, 1977), published as The Gardener's Son: A Screenplay, Ecco Press (Hopewell, NJ), 1996.
• Suttree, Random House (New York, NY), 1979, reprinted, Modern Library (New York, NY), 2002.
• Blood Meridian: or, The Evening Redness in the West, Random House (New York, NY), 1985, reprinted with an introduction by Harold Bloom, Modern Library (New York, NY), 2001.
• No Country for Old Men, Knopf (New York, NY), 2005.
• The Road, Knopf (New York, NY), 2006.
• The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form, Vintage Books (New York, NY), 2006.

Also author of the play The Stonemason. Contributor to James Drake, University of Texas Press (Austin, TX), 2008. Contributor to Yale Review and Sewanee Review.

THE "BORDER TRILOGY"

• All the Pretty Horses (also see below), Random House (New York, NY), 1992.
• The Crossing (also see below), Random House (New York, NY), 1994.
• Cities of the Plain (also see below), Random House (New York, NY), 1998.
• The Border Trilogy (contains All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain), Knopf (New York, NY), 1999.