Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on July 20, 1933. His real name is Charles McCarthy.
He was born and raised in Tennessee. His father was a prominent lawyer. But McCarthy cut short his studies and managed to earn his living as an auto mechanic. Others describe a harsh life he led; sleeping under bridges and in prison cells, almost like a tramp, just as he later portrayed the hero of his novel “The Lost,” who left his bourgeois family and was thrown into the Tennessee River, ending up there.