1. Charles McColl Portis was an American author best known for his novels Norwood and the classic Western True Grit.
12 Facts About Charles Portis
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Charles Portis was born in 1933 in El Dorado, Arkansas, the son of Alice and Samuel Palmer Portis.
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Charles Portis was raised and educated in various towns in southern Arkansas, including Hamburg and Mount Holly.
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Charles Portis graduated with a degree in journalism in 1958.
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Charles Portis began writing in college, for both the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville student newspaper, Arkansas Traveler, and the Northwest Arkansas Times.
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Charles Portis then moved to New York City, where he worked for four years at the New York Herald Tribune.
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Charles Portis's work led him to return to the South frequently to cover civil rights stories during the early 1960s.
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Charles Portis next returned to Arkansas and began writing fiction full-time.
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Charles Portis is persuaded by con man Grady Fring to transport two automobiles to New York City.
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Charles Portis published several short pieces in The Atlantic Monthly, including the memoir "Combinations of Jacksons" and the story "I Don't Talk Service No More".
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Charles Portis's final published work was the collection Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany, including journalism and other non-fiction, short stories, and a single play, Delray's New Moon.
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Charles Portis lived in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he died of Alzheimer's disease on February 17,2020, at the age of 86.