Cormac McCarthy's underage 'secret muse' tells her story (and reveals the stories she inspired)

Cormac McCarthy’s teen muse breaks silence

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 out much of his bestseller “All the Pretty Horses” with a woman named Augusta Britt. She was 16 when she met the then 42-year-old writer in 1976. Britt, now 64, guarded her identity and her story for nearly five decades, publicly revealing herself …

Article on Cormac McCarthy Raises Plenty of Eyebrows

A few different headlines have emerged to describe a new deep dive on late author Cormac McCarthy in Vanity Fair . "Cormac McCarthy's alleged 'muse' speaks out for the first time" reads the intriguing but rather anodyne description by USA Today . The Guardian , however, offers a more blunt assessment: "Cormac McCarthy...

Cormac McCarthy's underage 'secret muse' tells her story (and reveals the stories she inspired)

Cormac McCarthy was deeply private. Now a woman who inspired many of his characters speaks out about their relationship, which began when she was 16 and he was 42.