The student magazine The Phoenix calling himself C.J. McCarthy Jr. while at the University he was awarded and recognized for creative writing. One of Mccarthy’s well known novel is the first book of his astonishing border trilogy All the Pretty Horses.This book holds critical attention and commercial success. This was a New York Times best seller for 6 months also, it won the National Book award this was so called :the best work of fiction that year” by the critics. His inspiration was by his third wife Jennifer Winkley and his son John Francis McCarthy. When Cormac was writing one of his books called Cities On The Plain, he had just gotten married and wrote the book about coming together as one whole. Mccarthy was a very successful man, he enjoyed writing novels.McCarthy soon won a traveling fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and then left to go to Europe. A few years later Cormac returned to Tennessee, and Outer Dark was published that same year. What followed this dark and complex novel was that the books he wrote helped build McCarthy's