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Charles Portis

American author
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John M. Cunningham graduated from Kalamazoo College in 2000 with a B.A. in English. He worked at Britannica from 2004 to 2018. A student of pop culture and the arts, he wrote about popular (and semipopular)...
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Charles Portis (born December 28, 1933, El Dorado, Arkansas, U.S.ā€”died February 17, 2020, Little Rock, Arkansas) was an American novelist whose works were admired for their deadpan comic tone, colourfully sketched characters, and spirit of adventure. He was best known for the novel True Grit (1968), which inspired two popular film adaptations (1969 and 2010). Portis grew up in a series of small towns in southern Arkansas. After graduating from high school, he enlisted in...

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