Cormac McCarthy (20 thang 7 nam 1933 – 13 thang 6 nam 2023), ten khai sinh la Charles McCarthy, la nha van nguoi My. Ong la tac gia cua 12 cuon tieu thuyet, 2 vo kich, 5 kich ban phim va 3 truyen ngan, hau het đeu đuoc đoc gia phuong Tay đon nhan. Phong cach cua ong đien hinh boi cach mieu ta bao luc va loi dan truyen đac trung, it khi su dung cac dau cham cau cung nhu chu thich. Ong đuoc coi la mot trong nhung nha van vi đai nhat lich su nuoc My.
Sinh ra tai thu phu Providence, Rhode Island, McCarthy lai song va truong thanh tai bang Tennessee. Sau mot thoi gian hoc tai Đai hoc Tennessee, ong bo do va gia nhap Khong quan Hoa Ky. Nam 1965, ong phat hanh cuon tieu thuyet đau tay The Orchard Keeper. Voi mot so giai thuong nhan đuoc, ong đi du lich chau Au va sang tac tieu thuyet Outer Dark (1968). Cung nhu nhung tac pham truoc đo, Suttree (1979) nhan đuoc đanh gia chuyen mon cao nhung tiep tuc khong co thanh cong ve thuong mai. Giai thuong MacArthur Fellows tao đieu kien đe ong trai nghiem vung Nam My, noi ong tim hieu va viet Blood Meridian (1985). Du ban đau chi co mot chut it đanh gia chuyen mon cung nhu thuong mai, đay lai đuoc coi la sang tac thuong pham va la mot trong nhung tieu thuyet vi đai cua nuoc My (Great American Novel). 
Phai đen nam 1992, ten tuoi cua McCarthy moi đuoc biet đen rong rai voi tieu thuyet All the Pretty Horses (1992) qua Giai thuong Sach quoc gia va Giai thuong Sach quoc gia boi hoi đong giam khao. Hai phan tiep theo cua tac pham nay la cac tieu thuyet The Crossing (1994) va Cities of the Plain (1998). Tieu thuyet nam 2005 No Country for Old Men lai gay nhieu tranh cai. The Road (2006) đua ong đen vinh quang voi Giai Pulitzer cho tac pham hu cau cung nhu Giai thuong van hoc James Tait Black.
Nhieu tac pham cua McCarthy đa đuoc lua chon chuyen the thanh phim. Nam 2007, Khong chon dung than chuyen the tu No Country for Old Men gianh toi 4 giai Oscar, trong đo co hang muc Phim hay nhat. All the Pretty Horses, The Road va Child of God đeu đuoc chuyen the thanh phim cung ten, trong khi đo Outer Dark đuoc lam thanh phim ngan 15-phut. Ong cung tung dien xuat trong bo phim chuyen the cua The Sunset Limited (2011).
McCarthy lam viec cung Vien nghien cuu Santa Fe, noi ong thuc hien tieu luan "The Kekule Problem" (2017) giai thich ve tinh trang vo y thuc va nguon goc ngon ngu cua loai nguoi. Ke tu nam 2012, ong la thanh vien cua To chuc triet hoc Hoa Ky. 2 cuon tieu thuyet cuoi cung cua ong The Passenger va Stella Maris đuoc phat hanh vao nam 2022.
Ong qua đoi vi nguyen nhan tu nhien tai nha rieng o Santa Fe vao ngay 13 thang 6 nam 2023, huong tho 89 tuoi. Stephen King cho biet ong "co le la tieu thuyet gia nguoi My vi đai nhat trong thoi đai cua toi... Ong ay đa co nhieu nam va đa tao ra mot tac pham tuyet voi, nhung toi van thuong tiec cho su ra đi cua ong ay."


Tac pham The Orchard Keeper (1965), tieu thuyet
Outer Dark (1968), tieu thuyet
Child of God (1973), tieu thuyet
Suttree (1979), tieu thuyet
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West (1985), tieu thuyet
All the Pretty Horses (Nhung con tuan ma, 1992), tieu thuyet (tap 1 Bo ba Border)
The Crossing (Vuot lan ranh, 1994), tieu thuyet (tap 2 Bo ba Border)
The Stonemason (1995), kich
The Gardener's Son (1996), kich ban phim
Cities of the Plain (Thanh pho vung thao nguyen, 1998), tieu thuyet (tap 3 Bo ba Border)
No Country for Old Men (Khong chon nuong than, 2005), tieu thuyet
The Road (Con đuong, 2006), tieu thuyet
The Sunset Limited (2006), kich
The Counselor (2013), kich ban phim


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