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Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written over ten novels and has received the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for his novel The Road (2006). The adaptation of his 2005 novel No Country For Old Men, won four Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. McCarthy received a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for his 1992 novel All the Pretty Horses, which - along with The Road - was also made into a...See more

Personality Profile For Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

The following is a personality profile of Cormac Mccarthy based on his work.

Cormac Mccarthy is boisterous, unpretentious and genial.

He is laid-back, he appreciates a relaxed pace in life. He is empathetic as well: he feels what others feel and is compassionate towards them. But, Cormac Mccarthy is also intermittent: he has a hard time sticking with difficult tasks for a long period of time.

More than most people, his choices are driven by a desire for discovery.

He is also relatively unconcerned with tradition: he cares more about making his own path than following what others have done. Considers independence to guide a large part of what he does: he likes to set his own goals to decide how to best achieve them.


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