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Charles Portis


Born
in El Dorado, Arkansas, The United States
December 28, 1933

Died
February 17, 2020

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Charles McColl Portis was an American author best known for his novels Norwood (1966) and the classic Western True Grit (1968), both adapted as films. The latter also inspired a film sequel and a made-for-TV movie sequel. A newer film adaptation of True Grit was released in 2010.

Portis served in the Marine Corps during the Korean war and 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.

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Average rating: 4.1 · 90,862 ratings · 11,579 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors
True Grit
4.17 avg rating — 72,237 ratings — published 1968 — 171 editions
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The Dog of the South
3.82 avg rating — 7,801 ratings — published 1979 — 32 editions
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Norwood
3.85 avg rating — 4,758 ratings — published 1966 — 30 editions
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Masters of Atlantis
3.71 avg rating — 3,392 ratings — published 1985 — 25 editions
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Gringos
3.92 avg rating — 2,310 ratings — published 1991 — 24 editions
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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.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit
tags: grace
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“Nothing I like to do pays well.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit
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“Lookin' back is a bad habit.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit
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Polls

January 2019 New School Poll

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 288 pages, 1930
 
  112 votes, 35.2%

True Grit by Charles Portis, 224 pages, 1968
 
  73 votes, 23.0%

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages, 1981
 
  71 votes, 22.3%

 
  38 votes, 11.9%

The Egyptian by Mika Waltari, 503 pages, 1945
 
  24 votes, 7.5%

318 total votes
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