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(1933-2020) Author, novelist. Charles Portis was born in El Dorado, Arkansas, and died in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Full Name

Charles Portis

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline

1933

BIRTH

Charles McColl Portis was born in El Dorado, Arkansas, on December 28, 1933.

1960

OTHER

Mr. Portis began reporting for The New York Herald Tribune in Manhattan, New York, in 1960.

1966

LITWORK

Norwood
Simon & Schuster

Novel.

1968

LITWORK

True Grit
Simon & Schuster
0671763806 ISBN-13: 978-0671763800
Novel.

1979

LITWORK

The Dog of the South
Knopf
0394506146 ISBN-13: 978-0394506142
Novel.

1985

LITWORK

Masters of Atlantis
Knopf
0394546830 ISBN-13: 978-0394546834
Novel.

1991

LITWORK

Gringos
Simon & Schuster
0671724576 ISBN-13: 978-0671724573
Novel.

2012

LITWORK

Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany
Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
1935106503 ISBN-13: 978-1935106500
Collection of various writings.

2020

DEATH

Charles Portis died at a hospice in Little Rock, Arkansas, on February 17, 2020.

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