Cormac McCarthy is NOT dead despite internet rumors to the contrary. The beloved American author was reported dead from a reportedly hacked Twitter account of publishing firm Alfred A Knopf and it went viral from there.
But if you look back at the original tweet, it’s pretty ridiculous that anyone believed it for a moment. The Alfred A Knopf news account tweeted, “Author Cormac McCarty dies for stroke at 82.” That’s not even proper grammar and it’s coming from a publishing house.
Why would a publisher tweet a poorly-written death notice of one of America’s greatest (still) living writers? Answer – they wouldn’t. It’s a shame that so many jumped on the death bandwagon without thinking it through.
Cormac McCarthy is a living legend in American literature – and remains living. Even if you haven’t read his works, you’ll know movies that were made from them including All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men and The Road.
He’s a brilliant writer and very much ALIVE. Joyce Carol Oates later issued an apology for falling prey to the hoax saying, “Has Knopf been hacked? Sorry!” Oates is a prolific and incredible American author herself and as such, should have paused a moment when she read the poorly-written death tweet.
At least the hacker got it right by publishing the death notice from the Alfred A Knopf account since Knopf is Cormac McCarthy’s publisher, but everything else was plainly a badly done hoax that no one, much less Joyce Carol Oates and USA TODAY, should have fallen for.
Cormac McCarthy is alive and well as far as we know – don’t believe everything you read on the internet. For all the latest celebrity news and gossip, stay tuned to CDL!
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