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His novel "All the Pretty Horses" won a National Book Award in 1992.

His novel "The Road" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.

Has two sons, Cullen (with Lee Holleman) and John (with Jennifer Winkley, his current wife).

Lives with his family in the Tesuque, New Mexico.

Literary critic Harold Bloom considers him one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth.

Biography-bibliography in "Contemporary Authors," New Revision Series, Volume 171, pp. 260-270. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Cengage Learning, 2008.

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On Terrence Malick, whom he admires: It's so strange; I never knew what happened to him. I saw Richard Gere in New Orleans one time, and I said, "What ever happened to Terry Malick?" And he said, "Everybody asks me that." He said, "I have no idea." But later on I met Terry. And he just - he just decided that he didn't want to live that life. Or so he told me. He just didn't want to live the life. It wasn't that he didn't like the films. It's just, if you could do it without living in Hollywood ...

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