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Bookmark or Share- Charles Portis | Biography, Books, & Facts | BritannicaCharles Portis, American novelist whose works were admired for their deadpan comic tone, colorfully sketched characters, and spirit of adventure. He was best known for the novel True Grit (1968), which inspired two popular film adaptations (1969 and 2010). Learn more about Portis’s life and career.
- Charles Portis Truly Understood the South - The AtlanticCharles Portis Truly Understood the South - The Atlantic. Books. The Novelist Who Truly Understood the South. A new collection of Charles Portis’s work makes the case for his place in the...
- What Charles Portis Taught Us | The New YorkerCharles Portis died on Monday, at the age of eighty-six. He left us with five impeccable novels and the question of how properly to mourn a writer whose work handled life’s tragic and rhapsodic...
- The Oddballs and Odysseys of Charles Portis | The New YorkerBooks. The Oddballs and Odysseys of Charles Portis. In “True Grit,” and other novels, Portis displayed a genius that went beyond character in the strictly literary sense. By Casey Cep. April...
- Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis ...John Wayne and Charles Portis on the set of “True Grit.” Photograph from Paramount Pictures, via Photofest. By Donna Tartt. June 9, 2020. It is likely no surprise to readers who love the novels...
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