Keeping tabs of authors in LINKcat: Charles Portis

The appeal of "True Grit" hasn't faded.

Source:  LINKcat

Charles Portis, Elusive Author of ‘True Grit,’ Dies at 86.  (The New York Times, 2/17/2020)

Charles Portis, the publicity-shy author of “True Grit” and a short list of other novels that drew a cult following and accolades as the work of possibly the nation’s best unknown writer, died on Monday at a hospice in Little Rock, Ark. He was 86. 

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Mr. Portis was in his early 30s and well established as a reporter at The New York Herald Tribune in 1964, when he decided to turn to fiction full time. The decision astonished his friends and colleagues at the paper, among them Jimmy Breslin, Tom Wolfe and Nora Ephron.

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