Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist who has steadily risen in stature in the past 10 years. Though he has written since the 1960s, it was the publication of his book All the Pretty Horses in 1992, and its subsequent cinematic adaptation, that brought him widespread recognition. Recently, interest in McCarthy has skyrocketed, since the Coen Brothers' Oscar-winning adaptation of his novel No Country for Old Men and the recent adaptation of The Road.