Looking for the Light: Beowulf Sheehan on Photography and Cormac McCarthy

STACEY PEEBLES is the editor of the Cormac McCarthy Journal, Vice President of the Cormac McCarthy Society, and Chair and Associate Professor of English at Centre College. She is the author of Cormac McCarthy: Page, Stage, Screen (2017), Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier’s Experience in Iraq (2011), and the forthcoming The War Comes with You: Enduring War in Life, Fiction, and Fantasy.

BEOWULF SHEEHAN is a photographer of figures in the arts and humanities. His 2018 book Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan features portraits of two hundred writers from thirty-five countries, including one of Cormac McCarthy. His work has been published around the world and exhibited at the International Center of Photography, the Museum of the City of New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Some of his photographs of McCarthy are featured on the McCarthy Society’s website, cormacmccarthysociety.com, and more on Sheehan can be found at beowulfsheehan.com.