6/26/2023 0 Comments Portis charles![]() True Grit is one of only three books to be added to the Big Read Library since 2009. ![]() ![]() The Big Read Library is a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) program designed to restore reading to the center of American culture, and provides competitive grants to support innovative reading programs in a very large number of selected communities. True Grit is a National Endowment for the Arts 2013 Big Read Library Selection True Grit is the basis for two movies, the 1969 classic starring John Wayne and the 2010 version starring Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges and written and directed by the Coen brothers. Portis is the author of five novels, including the number one New York Times bestseller True Grit, as well as The Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, Gringos, and Norwood. He later moved to New York, working for the New York Herald-Tribune as London bureau chief until 1964, when he retired from journalism and moved back south to be a full-time novelist. During the Korean War, Portis served in the Marine Corps where he attained the rank of sergeant. After he graduated, Portis worked for various newspapers including two years at the Arkansas Gazette. Charles Portis (1933–present) Charles Portis began his writing career in college, working for the University of Arkansas student newspaper as well as the Northwest Arkansas Times. ![]()
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