![]() ![]() Join us and Oxford American as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of True Grit, April 20-21. But thanks to Charles Portis, we’ll always have True Grit. As a child, he traveled the state, living for a time in Hamburg and Mount Holly. He is the author of Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, Gringos, and Norwood. Charles McColl Portis, known to his friends as Buddy, was born in El Dorado in 1933. He was the London bureau chief of the New York Herald-Tribune, for which he also wrote as a reporter. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. About the AuthorĬharles Portis lives in Arkansas where he was born and educated. From a writer of true status, this is an American classic through and through. True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father’s blood. True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash. True Grit, his most famous novel, was first published in 1968, and became the basis for the movie starring John Wayne and now the film by the Coen brothers starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon. Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America’s foremost writers. ![]()
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