The influence of Augusta Britt is now obvious in much of McCarthy’s work - Jim Spellman In 1976 a 16-year-old girl had a chance encounter with a 42-year-old novelist by a motel swimming pool in ...

Literary giant Cormac McCarthy had a longtime “secret muse” whom he smuggled into Mexico when she was just 17. “I loved him more than anything,” Britt, who stayed in touch with the author until he ...

The previously unknown "muse" of famed novelist Cormac McCarthy has revealed herself in a Vanity Fair profile, published Wednesday. Complete with excerpts from love letters and the first-hand ...

Great American novelist Cormac McCarthy was defensively private and didn’t share much about the inspiration behind his books — or about himself. However, the author, who died in 2023, apparently lived ...

Revelations about a relationship between the author and a girl who was 16 when they met shocked readers, but not scholars of his work. Now there’s a debate about how much she influenced his writing.

Monthly magazine Vanity Fair is facing backlash for a recent article that some readers say romanticizes author Cormac McCarthy’s relationship with Augusta Britt. Augusta was a 16-year-old runaway when ...

Great American novelist Cormac McCarthy was defensively private and didn’t share much about the inspiration behind his books — or about himself. However, the author, who died in 2023, apparently lived ...