Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charles Portis, the author whose 1968 novel “True Grit” inspired two beloved big-screen Westerns, died Monday at the age of 86.

It would seem that the two most widely discussed films this summer are both going to be Westerns, The Wild Bunch and True Grit. “Widely” is the operative word because the Western is one kind of film ...

What moved Joel and Ethan Coen to adapt Charles Portis’s 1968 novel True Grit for the screen anew, 40-plus years after John Wayne made the one-eyed Marshall “Rooster” Cogburn his own? My guess is that ...

Memphis readers of Charles Portis' 1968 comic masterpiece of a Western novel, "True Grit," may be surprised to encounter, in its final chapter, a reference to the city's venerable daily newspaper, The ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Charles Portis, the reclusive Arkansas writer known for the classic Western novel "True Grit" and the wry humor that filled his works, died on Monday at the age of 86 ...

Charles Portis, an Arkansas native best known for his 1968 novel True Grit, died on Monday at a Little Rock hospice facility. He was 86. The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease and ...

Charles Portis, the author whose 1968 novel “True Grit” inspired two beloved big-screen Westerns, died Monday at the age of 86. The Arkansas native had struggled with failing health for several years, ...