科馬剋·麥卡锡Cormac McCarthy（1933— ），美國作傢、劇作傢。生於美國羅得島州。一九三七年隨傢遷至田納西州諾剋斯維爾。一九五一至一九五二年於田納西大學主修文科。一九五三年，加入美國空軍，服役四年。一九五七年重返田納西大學，期間在學生報紙上發錶瞭兩篇短篇小說。一九六一年，麥卡锡舉傢遷移至芝加哥，在那裏寫下瞭他的第一部小說《果園守門人》。

科馬剋·麥卡锡迄今共寫有十多部作品。“邊境三部麯”中的《駿馬》曾獲一九九二年美國國傢圖書奬和美國評論界圖書奬。二○○六年《紐約時報》評選“過去二十五年齣版的美國最佳小說”，麥卡锡一九八五年齣版的作品《血色子午綫》名列第二，此書也被譽為二十世紀最齣色的百部英文小說之一。二○○七年，他憑藉小說《路》獲普利策小說奬。

Llewlyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice – leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? ‘ No Country for Old Men is a compelling, harrowing, disturbing, sad, endlessly surprising and resonant novel’ Robert Edric, Spectator ‘ No Country for Old Men is a severed head and shoulders over anything else written in America this year’ Independent on Sunday ‘A Western thriller with a racy plot and punchy dialogue, perfect for a lazy Sunday’ Sarah Emily Miano, The Times ‘[An] utterly absorbing, chilling tale . . . One of the most sinister characters in modern American fiction’ Herald ‘A fast, powerful read, steeped with a deep sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West’ Lionel Shriver, Financial Times