Image: Cormac McCarthy (Child of God author portrait - high-res)

Description: Photo portrait of American author Cormac McCarthy used as the first-edition back cover of his 1973 novel Child of God.
Title: Cormac McCarthy (Child of God author portrait - high-res)
Credit: Scan sourced from EveningStarBooks.net (direct link to jpg). Cropped and retouched by the uploader; see upload history below for unretouched original. This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications made by Blz 2049.  
Author: From dust jacket: "Photograph of Cormac McCarthy by David Styles"
Permission: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1927 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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