In Charles Portis' most famous novel, True Grit from 1968, his unadorned prose describes Rooster Cogburn as a "pitiless man who loves to pull a cork." The reclusive writer, now 77, is the subject of a ...

Charles Portis, the author whose 1968 novel “True Grit” inspired two beloved big-screen Westerns, died Monday at the age of 86. The Arkansas native had struggled with failing health for several years, ...

Memphis readers of Charles Portis' 1968 comic masterpiece of a Western novel, "True Grit," may be surprised to encounter, in its final chapter, a reference to the city's venerable daily newspaper, The ...

What moved Joel and Ethan Coen to adapt Charles Portis’s 1968 novel True Grit for the screen anew, 40-plus years after John Wayne made the one-eyed Marshall “Rooster” Cogburn his own? My guess is that ...

Charles Portis, an Arkansas native best known for his 1968 novel True Grit, died on Monday at a Little Rock hospice facility. He was 86. The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease and ...

INDIANAPOLISINDIANAPOLIS — A museum in downtown Indianapolis devoted to Western art is leading a two-month celebration of the classic Western novel “True Grit.” The Eiteljorg Museum of American ...

State highway officials have designated a stretch of Arkansas 22 as “True Grit Trail” in honor of the classic novel by Arkansas native Charles Portis. The Arkansas Department of Transportation ...

Charles Portis, the author whose 1968 novel “True Grit” inspired two beloved big-screen Westerns, died Monday at the age of 86. The Arkansas native had struggled with failing health for several years, ...

In 1968, Charles Portis’ book True Grit was released. The book and two subsequent movies told the story of a young woman’s pursuit of justice in the American West circa the 1870s. But that plot was ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Charles Portis, the reclusive Arkansas writer known for the classic Western novel “True Grit” and the wry humor that filled his works, died on Monday at the age of 86 after ...