Charles Portis
Charles Portis was an Arkansas journalist who wrote five quirky, completely original novels, of which True Grit is the most celebrated: a Western adventure narrated by a relentlessly literal-minded old woman recalling her girlhood quest for justice.
Works
- True GritWestern of young girl seeking revenge for father's murder
- NorwoodComic picaresque of Arkansas drifter traveling through Southern America
- The Dog of the SouthComic adventure following man's obsessive quest through South America
- Masters of AtlantisPicaresque adventure of con artists seeking lost Atlantean civilization
- GringosPolitical comedy following Americans in corrupt Central American country