True Grit is his most famous novel - first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne.
Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian TerritoryĬharles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. Mattie Ross is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money.
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