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| | City of Austin - MBC' 04: Cormac McCarthy Biography |
 | | Charles McCarthy, Jr., better known to readers as Cormac McCarthy, is frequently compared with such Southern-based writers as William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor. |
 | | When Cormac was four, he and his family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, where his father got a job as an attorney for the powerful Tennessee Valley Authority." After high school, McCarthy studied engineering at the University of Tennessee, then entered the U.S. Air Force. |
 | | McCarthy's first novel, The Orchard Keeper, deals with three people—a young man who is coming of age in the Tennessee mountains, a bootlegger, and an aged orchard keeper—whose lives are intertwined, even though they don't meet until the end of the story. |
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