From a New York Times obit by Dwight Garner headlined “Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89”:
Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia and the American Southwest, whose raggedly ornate early novels about misfits and grotesques gave way to the lush taciturnity of “All the Pretty Horses” and the apocalyptic minimalism of “The Road,” died on Tuesday at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. .