An account posing as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Road,” “No Country for Old Men” and “All the Pretty Horses” was mistakenly verified by Twitter.
The check mark gave it a semblance of legitimacy, but a popular Twitter account associated with Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men,” that went from being verified to not is a fake, his agent said on Monday.
The account, @CormacMcCrthy, had gained more than 49,000 followers since it was created in September 2018 by someone pretending to be Mr. McCarthy, a storyteller with a reputed aversion to computers.
The voice on Twitter was an unfamiliar one for fans of Mr. McCarthy’s prose, which is known for intense and at-times sadistic narratives that often pit good versus evil.
The tweets mused about things like kombucha, TikTok and Disney+, eliciting tens of thousands of retweets and likes with their droll and curmudgeonly tone.