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Book cover for All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

About the Author
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AWARDS

Ingram-Merrill Foundation grant for creative writing, 1960

American Academy of Arts and Letters traveling fellowship to Europe, 1965-66

William Faulkner Foundation award for The Orchard Keeper, 1965

Rockefeller Foundation grant, 1966

Guggenheim fellowship, 1976

MacArthur Foundation grant, 1981

Jean Stein Award, American Academy and Institution of Arts and Letters, 1991

National Book Award for fiction and National Book Critics Award for fiction, both for All the Pretty Horses, 1992

Lyndhurst Foundation grant

Institute of Arts and Letters award.

Source Citation
Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2004. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: The Gale Group. 2004. (accessed 16 May 2004).

Document Number: H1000065835


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