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Charles Portis

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born
in El Dorado, AR, The United States
December 28, 1933

gender
male

genre
Literature & Fiction


About this author

Charles McColl Portis was born in 1933, in El Dorado Arkansas and was raised in various towns in southern Arkansas. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean war and after his discharge in 1955 attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He graduated with a degree in journalism in 1958.

His journalistic career included work at the Arkansas Gazette before he moved to New York to work for The New York Herald Tribune. After serving as the London bureau chief for the The New York Herald Tribune, he left journalism in 1964 and returned to Arkansas to write novels.

He currently lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.


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Average rating: 4.04 · 16,165 ratings · 2,831 reviews · 8 distinct works · Similar authors
True Grit
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 12,492 ratings — published 1968 — 70 editions
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The Dog of the South
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 1,443 ratings — published 1979 — 14 editions
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Norwood
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 912 ratings — published 1966 — 14 editions
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Masters of Atlantis
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 592 ratings — published 1985 — 10 editions
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Gringos
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 449 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions
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4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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Portis Assortment 12 pack
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002
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“You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.”
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“Lookin' back is a bad habit.”
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“Nothing I like to do pays well.”
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