You don’t know the name Angela Britt, but if you knew her story—from runaway to ranch hand—you’d recognize her as the bumbly bum Gene Harrogate or the young and doomed Wanda from Suttree. She served as some ten or so characters in the novels of Cormac McCarthy. Britt knew McCarthy for 47 years. Coincidentally, she has 47 extant letters from him, which she shared with Vincenzo Barney at
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You don’t know the name Angela Britt, but if you knew her story—from runaway to ranch hand—you’d recognize her as the bumbly bum Gene Harrogate or the young and doomed Wanda from Suttree. She served as some ten or so characters in the novels of Cormac McCarthy. Britt knew McCarthy for 47 years. Coincidentally, she has 47 extant letters from him, which she shared with Vincenzo Barney at