Charles McColl Portis (born December 28, 1933) is an American author best known for his novels Norwood (1966) and the classic Western novel 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 has been described as "one of the most inventively comic writers of western fiction".
Early life
Charles Portis was born in 1933 to Samuel Palmer and Alice Waddell Portis in El Dorado, Arkansas. He was raised and educated in various towns in southern Arkansas, including Hamburg and Mount Holly.
Portis began writing in college, for both the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville student newspaper, Arkansas Traveler, and the Northwest Arkansas Times. One of his tasks was to redact the colorful reporting of "lady stringers" in the Ozarks, a task credited as a source for the vivid voice which he created years later for his character Mattie Ross in True Grit. After Portis graduated, he worked for various newspapers as a reporter, including almost two years at the Arkansas Gazette, for which he wrote the "Our Town" column.
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Jay Jennings Remembers Charles Portis
"Charles Portis was proclaimed by some as a 'writer’s writer,' and several prominent critics and fellow writers—including Larry McMurtry, Roy Blount Jr., and Nora Ephron—heaped their praises on Portis’s work. In addition to his five novels, Portis also contributed shorter fiction and nonfiction articles to such periodicals as the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, the Arkansas Times, and the Oxford American. He also wrote one play, Delray’s New Moon, which was performed as a reading by the Arkansas Repertory Theatre in April 1996. In 2010, Portis was honored with the Oxford American’s first Lifetime Achievement in Southern Literature award." -- Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Portis died in Little Rock on February 17, 2020.
Jay Jennings, senior editor at the Oxford American and long-time friend ...
published: 21 Feb 2020
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We bid farewell to one of the funniest American writers EVER! Here's a link to my remembrance in last week's Los Angeles Times:
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published: 26 Feb 2020
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5 reasons to read...Charles Portis
Today we're talking about the genius of Charles Portis, a modern Twain, an American Douglas Adams, an American Wodehouse (though PG Wodehouse was, of course, an American citizen)...actually you know what forget all that...he's sui generis, Southern and hilarious.
Apologies for the goof in the first couple of sentences, I meant of course Jeff Bridges not Goldblum. I'm an eejit.
"Charles Portis was proclaimed by some as a 'writer’s writer,' and several prominent critics and fellow writers—including Larry McMurtry, Roy Blount Jr., and No...
"Charles Portis was proclaimed by some as a 'writer’s writer,' and several prominent critics and fellow writers—including Larry McMurtry, Roy Blount Jr., and Nora Ephron—heaped their praises on Portis’s work. In addition to his five novels, Portis also contributed shorter fiction and nonfiction articles to such periodicals as the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, the Arkansas Times, and the Oxford American. He also wrote one play, Delray’s New Moon, which was performed as a reading by the Arkansas Repertory Theatre in April 1996. In 2010, Portis was honored with the Oxford American’s first Lifetime Achievement in Southern Literature award." -- Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Portis died in Little Rock on February 17, 2020.
Jay Jennings, senior editor at the Oxford American and long-time friend of Charles Portis, reflects on his relationship with the author and on Portis's work. Jennings is also the editor of Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany, a compilation of Portis’s short fiction, nonfiction, and journalism, as well as his memoir and his play. Escape Velocity was published by Butler Center Books in the fall of 2012.
"Charles Portis was proclaimed by some as a 'writer’s writer,' and several prominent critics and fellow writers—including Larry McMurtry, Roy Blount Jr., and Nora Ephron—heaped their praises on Portis’s work. In addition to his five novels, Portis also contributed shorter fiction and nonfiction articles to such periodicals as the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, the Arkansas Times, and the Oxford American. He also wrote one play, Delray’s New Moon, which was performed as a reading by the Arkansas Repertory Theatre in April 1996. In 2010, Portis was honored with the Oxford American’s first Lifetime Achievement in Southern Literature award." -- Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Portis died in Little Rock on February 17, 2020.
Jay Jennings, senior editor at the Oxford American and long-time friend of Charles Portis, reflects on his relationship with the author and on Portis's work. Jennings is also the editor of Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany, a compilation of Portis’s short fiction, nonfiction, and journalism, as well as his memoir and his play. Escape Velocity was published by Butler Center Books in the fall of 2012.
We bid farewell to one of the funniest American writers EVER! Here's a link to my remembrance in last week's Los Angeles Times:
https://www.latimes.com/enterta...
We bid farewell to one of the funniest American writers EVER! Here's a link to my remembrance in last week's Los Angeles Times:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-02-18/charles-portis-true-grit-appreciation
And don't forget to help us increase our subscriber list so we reach the immortal level of 1000! You know what that means–a scarf. A puppy. A candle. And an awards ceremony that will make the Oscars look like, well, the Oscars! The Oscars suck! But our awards show will... only SORT of suck! Be there or be square!
We bid farewell to one of the funniest American writers EVER! Here's a link to my remembrance in last week's Los Angeles Times:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-02-18/charles-portis-true-grit-appreciation
And don't forget to help us increase our subscriber list so we reach the immortal level of 1000! You know what that means–a scarf. A puppy. A candle. And an awards ceremony that will make the Oscars look like, well, the Oscars! The Oscars suck! But our awards show will... only SORT of suck! Be there or be square!
Welcome to a discussion of True Grit by Charles Portis.
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Today we're talking about the genius of Charles Portis, a modern Twain, an American Douglas Adams, an American Wodehouse (though PG Wodehouse was, of course, an...
Today we're talking about the genius of Charles Portis, a modern Twain, an American Douglas Adams, an American Wodehouse (though PG Wodehouse was, of course, an American citizen)...actually you know what forget all that...he's sui generis, Southern and hilarious.
Apologies for the goof in the first couple of sentences, I meant of course Jeff Bridges not Goldblum. I'm an eejit.
Today we're talking about the genius of Charles Portis, a modern Twain, an American Douglas Adams, an American Wodehouse (though PG Wodehouse was, of course, an American citizen)...actually you know what forget all that...he's sui generis, Southern and hilarious.
Apologies for the goof in the first couple of sentences, I meant of course Jeff Bridges not Goldblum. I'm an eejit.
"Charles Portis was proclaimed by some as a 'writer’s writer,' and several prominent critics and fellow writers—including Larry McMurtry, Roy Blount Jr., and Nora Ephron—heaped their praises on Portis’s work. In addition to his five novels, Portis also contributed shorter fiction and nonfiction articles to such periodicals as the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, the Arkansas Times, and the Oxford American. He also wrote one play, Delray’s New Moon, which was performed as a reading by the Arkansas Repertory Theatre in April 1996. In 2010, Portis was honored with the Oxford American’s first Lifetime Achievement in Southern Literature award." -- Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Portis died in Little Rock on February 17, 2020.
Jay Jennings, senior editor at the Oxford American and long-time friend of Charles Portis, reflects on his relationship with the author and on Portis's work. Jennings is also the editor of Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany, a compilation of Portis’s short fiction, nonfiction, and journalism, as well as his memoir and his play. Escape Velocity was published by Butler Center Books in the fall of 2012.
We bid farewell to one of the funniest American writers EVER! Here's a link to my remembrance in last week's Los Angeles Times:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-02-18/charles-portis-true-grit-appreciation
And don't forget to help us increase our subscriber list so we reach the immortal level of 1000! You know what that means–a scarf. A puppy. A candle. And an awards ceremony that will make the Oscars look like, well, the Oscars! The Oscars suck! But our awards show will... only SORT of suck! Be there or be square!
Welcome to a discussion of True Grit by Charles Portis.
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Today we're talking about the genius of Charles Portis, a modern Twain, an American Douglas Adams, an American Wodehouse (though PG Wodehouse was, of course, an American citizen)...actually you know what forget all that...he's sui generis, Southern and hilarious.
Apologies for the goof in the first couple of sentences, I meant of course Jeff Bridges not Goldblum. I'm an eejit.
Charles McColl Portis (born December 28, 1933) is an American author best known for his novels Norwood (1966) and the classic Western novel 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 has been described as "one of the most inventively comic writers of western fiction".
Early life
Charles Portis was born in 1933 to Samuel Palmer and Alice Waddell Portis in El Dorado, Arkansas. He was raised and educated in various towns in southern Arkansas, including Hamburg and Mount Holly.
Portis began writing in college, for both the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville student newspaper, Arkansas Traveler, and the Northwest Arkansas Times. One of his tasks was to redact the colorful reporting of "lady stringers" in the Ozarks, a task credited as a source for the vivid voice which he created years later for his character Mattie Ross in True Grit. After Portis graduated, he worked for various newspapers as a reporter, including almost two years at the Arkansas Gazette, for which he wrote the "Our Town" column.
... elements of Barry’s storytelling are there—addiction, fairy stories, bar fights, drugs—with an added sensibility reminiscent of the romantic, like Charles Portis’ True Grit or Jack Schaefer’s Shane.
Norwood by Charles Portis. Norwood by Charles Portis ...True Grit gets most of the love, but Charles Portis’s first novel, published in 1966, is worth a second look.
I am a language guy ... "Inland," in Hoban's future, translates to "England." ... This is wild and sad, a fairy tale of manifest destiny that evokes in almost equal parts Cormac McCarthy and Charles Portis, in addition to the aforementioned Hoban and Milch.
Kayla Portis, a fourth-generation resident and 2003Fox ChapelArea grad, was selected unanimously out of five candidates July 11 ... Serving the borough is not new to Portis ... Portis, 39, plans to serve out the remaining time.
Barry’s book put me in mind of other Westerns that have made an impact on me and other readers, such as Charles Portis’s classic “True Grit,” Pete Dexter’s “Deadwood,” C ... I asked Barry about his own memorably elusive title ... “That’s lovely ... .
“I was looking for good books.” ... He’s right, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning TRUE GRIT by Charles Portis, to one of America’s most popular writers John Grisham, the Natural State has produced a plethora of successful and talented writers ... .