* Cormac McCarthy references the Wild Hunt in his novel Suttree.

In Cormac McCarthy's 1979 novel, Suttree, the title character winds up in Bryson City after wandering over the mountains from Gatlinburg.

* Cormac McCarthy's 1979 novel Suttree concerns a man who forsakes his life of privilege to become a fisherman along the Tennessee River in Knoxville in the early 1950s.

Cormac McCarthy honored Iturbi with a moment of colloquial humor in Suttree, his semi-autobiographical novel published in 1979.

Suttree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Cormac McCarthy, published in 1979.

* William Gillespie, " Sure Do Wish You ’ d Get Ye One of These Here Taters: An Essay on Cormac McCarthy ’ s Suttree "

In the 1979 novel Suttree by Cormac McCarthy, the title character's friend, Harrogate, is jailed in Brushy Mountain for stealing money from pay telephones.

Novelist Nelson Algren argued that the novel was “ a memorable American comedy by an original storyteller .” Estimable reviews by such noted writers and literary critics as Anatole Broyard, Jerome Charyn, Guy Davenport, and Shelby Foote were followed by the Times Literary Supplement review which saw the novel as “ Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O ' Connor .” The influential profile writer and music journalist Stanley Booth observed that Suttree was “ probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of McCarthy ’ s books ... which seem to me unsurpassed in American literature .”

In 1979, his novel Suttree, which he had been writing on and off for twenty years, was finally published.

Set in 1951 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the novel follows Cornelius Suttree, who has repudiated his former life of privilege to become a fisherman on the Tennessee River.

Suttree was written over a 30-year span and is a departure from his previous novels, being much longer, more sprawling in structure, and perhaps McCarthy's most humorous novel.

The novel begins with Suttree observing police as they pull a suicide from the river.

Towards the novel's end, Suttree falls ill with typhoid fever and suffers a lengthy hallucination.

Suttree has been compared to James Joyce's Ulysses, John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, and called " a doomed version " of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Suttree is living alone in a houseboat, on the fringes of society on the Tennessee River, earning money by fishing for the occasional catfish.

Bridges over the Tennessee River that are featured in Suttree.

A large cast of characters, largely misfits and grotesques, is introduced, one of which is Gene Harrogate, whom Suttree meets in a work camp.

") Suttree attempts to help Harrogate once he is released from the work camp, but this task proves to be in vain as Harrogate sets off on a series of misadventures, including using poisoned meat and a slingshot to kill bats (" flitter-mice " as Harrogate calls them ) to earn a bounty on them, and using dynamite to attempt to tunnel underneath the city.

Suttree is also married before the book begins with a woman he apparently met during college.

This occurs after a black friend of Suttree's is killed in a fight with the police and his other friend Harrogate is arrested for robbing a store, so Suttree decides to leave town.

Francisco and his brother, Gustavo A. Madero, are mentioned in the 1992 book All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.

As of February 2012, Ridley Scott was discussing a project based on a screenplay called The Counselor by author Cormac McCarthy.

** Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize winning and National Book Award winning author

* 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Unsuccessful nominees ( in chronological order of earliest nomination ) include such established writers as V. S. Naipaul, Cees Nooteboom, José Saramago, Rohinton Mistry, Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, Ian McEwan, Haruki Murakami, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Peter Carey, Carlos Fuentes, Jonathan Franzen, John McGahern, Julian Barnes, J. M. Coetzee, Cormac McCarthy, Salman Rushdie, Barbara Kingsolver and Joyce Carol Oates.

* Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, 1992.

* Cormac McCarthy, American novelist

* Sevier County is the setting for the novel Child of God by Cormac McCarthy.

Novelist Cormac McCarthy lives in the Tesuque area with his third wife, Jennifer Winkley, and their son, John.

In August 2006, two movie production units used locations in and around Marfa: the film There Will Be Blood, an adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel Oil !, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and the Coen Brothers ' adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel No Country for Old Men.

* In the Cormac McCarthy novel All the Pretty Horses, John Grady Cole comments on how much the Mexican Tavern keeper loves America by saying " He made that Country sound like the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

* Cormac McCarthy – Blood Meridian

* Cormac McCarthy – Child of God

He is listed by Harold Bloom as being among the preeminent contemporary American writers, in the company of such giants as Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, and Thomas Pynchon.

The stories listed include one suggesting that the stone was presented to Cormac McCarthy by Robert the Bruce in 1314 in recognition of his support in the Battle of Bannockburn.

Another suggests that Queen Elizabeth I, while requesting an oath of loyalty to retain occupancy of land, received responses from Cormac Teige McCarthy, the Lord of Blarney, which amounted to subtle diplomacy, and promised loyalty to the Queen without " giving in.

Cormac McCarthy has also influenced Rickly.

Cormac McCarthy ( born Charles McCarthy ; July 20, 1933 ) is an American novelist and playwright.

The acquisition of the Cormac McCarthy Papers resulted from years of ongoing conversations between McCarthy and Southwestern Writers Collection founder, Bill Wittliff, who negotiated the proceedings.

The Southwestern Writers Collection / Wittliff collections also holds The Wolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy, which consists of letters between McCarthy and bibliographer J. Howard Woolmer, and four other related collections.

Apocalyptic fiction generally concerns the disaster itself and the direct aftermath, while post-apocalyptic can deal with anything from the near aftermath ( as in Cormac McCarthy's The Road ) to 375 years in the future ( as in By The Waters of Babylon ) to hundreds or thousands of years in the future, as in Russell Hoban's novel Riddley Walker and Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s A Canticle for Leibowitz.

* In Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian, one of the characters in the Glanton Gang of scalpers in 1850s Mexico is a " Vandiemenlander " named Bathcat.

In Cormac McCarthy's debut novel The Orchard Keeper, Red Branch is the name of the town where the majority of the narrative's events take place.

It is the setting for Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men, and the Academy Award winning film adaptation of the same name.

Some consider it the ultimate postmodern Western, and related to postmodern literature such as Cormac McCarthy's novel, Blood Meridian.

Much of Cormac McCarthy's 1973 novel Child of God takes place in Sevierville and the surrounding area.

* The character Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian.

The novel depicts Cormac and Scotland enduring the conflicts between its short-lived High Kings, while also facing simultaneous Viking raids.

* The river is forded by " The Kid " character in Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian

* The kid ( Blood Meridian ), a central character in Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel Blood Meridian

* The phrase further appears in Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian when the character Tobin informs The Kid that the phrase is the name Judge Holden has ascribed to his rifle, noting " A reference to the lethal in it.

While caring for the baby and tending to the chores of the house, Lee was asked by Cormac to also get a day job so he could focus on his novel writing.

* Judge Holden, a character in Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel Blood Meridian

The Cormac McCarthy novel Blood Meridian is about a group of mercenaries making a living off Indian scalps and references the activity extensively, and in Karl May's novels the character Sam Hawkins had been scalped by Indian warriors and survives.

* A fictionalized Glanton is featured prominently in Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian ( 1985 ), in which many of the events are based on Chamberlain's account.