In 1985, he published Blood Meridian, the first of his so-called “westerns,” followed by Suttree. McCarthy was awarded a Macarthur “Genius” grant in 1981. After a brief first marriage, he married a young English singer named Anne DeLisle, and in 1967 they moved to Rockford, Tennessee, though they divorced several years later and he moved to El Paso, Texas. He returned to school but never graduated, and instead worked as a mechanic in Chicago while writing his first novel The Orchard Keeper, which was published in 1965. Raised Catholic, he studied liberal arts at the University of Tennessee for a few years before joining the U.S. Cormac McCarthy was born the third of six children in Rhode Island.
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