The following is a link to a March 1, 2001 article from Knoxville's "Metropulse" regarding the author Cormac McCarthy's local roots. It includes an interview with my father, Jerry A. Anderson, regarding their friendship as teenagers.

"He Felt At Home Here"

Knoxville gave Cormac McCarthy the raw material of his art. And he gave it back.

By Mike Gibson

Thursday, March 1, 2001

"Summer dusk had crept long and blue and shadows risen high upon the western building faces when he came up Gay Street. He went along the shopfronts like a misplaced poacher, his eyes squirreling about and his broken clown's sneakers flapping. At Lockett's he paused to admire dusty charlatan's props in the window, small boxes of sneeze powder, cigars laced with cordite, a stamped tin inkstain... Harrogate filled with admiration at such things. He stepped slightly back to note the merchant's name and then went on. Passing under the Comer's Sports Center sign, a steep stairwell and the muted clack of balls overhead. There it is, he said. Bigger'n life."
—from Suttree

More here-
http://www.metropulse.com/news/2001/mar/01/he-felt-home-here/