The famed author was 89yo, and his people say he died of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Yesterday, fellow author Stephen King called him “maybe the greatest American novelist of my time” – and he certainly was successful. Penning 12 novels, 2 plays, 5 screenplays, and 3 short stories during his decades-long career, McCarthy won the National Book Award in 1992 with All The Pretty Horses, a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road, and the film based on his No Country for Old Men won the Oscar for best picture in 2008. As his New York Times obituary notes, his specialty was writing about outsiders who inhabited the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds. “I was always attracted to people who enjoyed a perilous lifestyle,” McCarthy said in a rare interview. His preferred subject matter was far from cheery, but he was a beautiful writer who dodged flowery language. Note: All The Pretty Horses is our favourite book of all time…