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Charles Portis
Charles Portis Biography
Charles Portis is an author best known for his novels Norwood and the classic Western True Grit.
Portis began writing in college, for both the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville student newspaper, Arkansas Traveler, and the Northwest Arkansas Times. 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.
He moved to New York, where he worked for four years at the New York Herald Tribune. His work led him to return to the South frequently to cover civil rights–related stories during the early 1960s. After serving as the London bureau chief of the New York Herald Tribune, he left journalism in 1964.
Portis returned to Arkansas and began writing fiction full-time. In his first novel, Norwood, followed by True Grit, The Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis and Gringos. His novels were first serialized in condensed form in The Saturday Evening Post.
Portis also 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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