American author Cormac McCarthy was 42 when he met 16-year-old Augusta Britt, who she says inspired characters in some of his famous novels.

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Cormac McCarthy’s ‘secret muse’ was 17 when they first had sex, she says

Augusta Britt, who says she met the then-married author at a motel pool, is believed to have inspired several novels

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Cormac McCarthy had relationship with 16-year-old ‘muse’ in his 40s

You can’t cancel the dead. So Cormac McCarthy, titan of contemporary American fiction, will rest easy then.

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Julia Molony: Cormac McCarthy’s 16-year-old ‘muse’ was a vulnerable child failed by the only adult in the room

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Star author Cormac McCarthy, who died in 2023, is considered one of the most important American storytellers of the 20th century. Now a woman has revealed a relationship with him that began when she was 16.

Der 2023 gestorbene Star-Autor Cormac McCarthy gilt als einer der wichtigsten amerikanischen Erzähler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Nun hat eine Frau eine Beziehung zu ihm offengelegt, die begann, als sie 16 war.

Autor von »No Country for Old Men«: Er war 42, sie war 16 – Schriftsteller Cormac McCarthy hatte eine minderjährige Geliebte

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Author of "No Country for Old Men": He was 42, she was 16 – writer Cormac McCarthy had an underage lover

When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history, giving life to many of McCarthy’s most iconic characters across his celebrated novels and Hollywood films. For 47 years, Britt closely guarded her identity and her story. Until now.

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Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.”

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Revelations about a relationship between the author and a woman 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.Cormac McCarthy was reserved, and remained so after winning a National Book Award for “All the Pretty Horses”…

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A Long-Held Secret Is Now Public. Will it Alter Cormac McCarthy’s Legacy?

Augusta Britt, secret teenaged muse of a middle-aged Cormac McCarthy, sounds like a fascinating person but this profile of her in Vanity Fair does not do her justice.

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Augusta Britt, secret teenaged muse of a middle-aged Cormac...

American novelist Cormac McCarthy’s secret minor muse has been revealed, more than a year after his death from prostate cancer. The writer, whose novels include The Passenger and Stella Maris, was not known for female characters in his westerns. But many of his leading men were inspired by a single woman, Augusta Britt, whom the author first met in 1976 when she was just 16 years old and he was 42 years old. Vanity Fair reports.  She explained t…

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Cormac McCarthy's Secret Underage Muse Who He Fell In Love With When She Was 16 And He Was 42

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