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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 3, 1993                   TAG: 9303030097
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

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AWARDS POSITION AUTHOR FOR PULITZER PRIZE

Reclusive author Cormac McCarthy has won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for his novel "All the Pretty Horses."

The coming-of-age adventure of two young men along the Mexico-Texas border also won the National Book Award for fiction. The two awards make McCarthy a strong contender for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

Norman Maclean, author of the modern classic "A River Runs Through It," won the nonfiction prize for "Young Men and Fire," a portrait of the smokejumpers killed in a forest fire in Montana in 1949.

McCarthy, who lives in El Paso, Texas, has become a cult figure of sorts. He refuses all interviews and lives a reclusive life. He is the author of five other novels, including "Blood Meridian."

Maclean died in 1990. "A River Runs Through It" was completed after he retired from the University of Chicago in 1973. Robert Redford made a critically acclaimed movie based on the book.

The award for biography-autobiography went to "Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World," by Carol Brightman.

Garry Wills won the criticism prize for "Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America."

Hayden Carruth, who did the anthology of 20th-century American poetry "The Voice That Is Great Within Us," was given the poetry award for his "Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991."

The awards ceremony will be held in New York on March 25.

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