Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter known for spare, powerful prose and bleak, violent depictions of the American South and West. His major works include 'All the Pretty Horses' and 'The Road,' and he won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Providence, United States Jul 20, 1933 Wikipedia Website
Southern Gothic Western Post-apocalyptic fiction