Farewell to Cormac McCarthy, 89 Year-Old author of The Road

Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author who wrote novels such as “Blood Meridian,” “No Country for Old Men” and “The Road,” died at 89 years old, Tuesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

We received word of his death in a statement by his publisher, Penguin Random House citing McCarthy’s son, John McCarthy. He died of natural causes.

“Cormac McCarthy changed the course of literature,” Nihar Malaviya, the CEO of Penguin Random House, said in a statement.

We at Aethon bid farewell to a legend.