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Erum Salam, Alison Flood and Sian Cain

Cormac McCarthy, celebrated US novelist, dies aged 89

Cormac McCarthy, described by Stephen King as ‘maybe the greatest American novelist of my time’.
Cormac McCarthy, described by Stephen King as ‘maybe the greatest American novelist of my time’. Photograph: Album/Alamy

Cormac 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.

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