Portis’s protagonists are staid and ill at ease in modern society. Whereas True Grit has sold copies into the millions and was made into films in 19 (with an Oscar-winning performance by John Wayne in the first adaptation), Portis’s other novels, though of high quality, have gone in and out of print over the years and have sold much more modestly. Portis’s other novels- Norwood, The Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, and Gringos-are set in the twentieth century and are more purely comical. One of the finest of Arkansas’s fiction writers, Charles McColl Portis was best known for the western novel True Grit.
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