Charles Portis

Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers.True Grit is his most famous novel--first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom …

Norwood is the first novel written by author Charles Portis, originally published in 1966 by Simon & Schuster. The book follows its namesake protagonist on a misadventurous road trip from his hometown of Ralph, Texas, to New York City and back. During the trip, Norwood is exposed to a comic array of personalities …

Masters of Atlantis is a 1985 novel by Charles Portis.

Following the enormous success of the reissues of Charles Portis’s first three novels―The Dog of the South, Norwood, and Masters of Atlantis―comes the reissue of a fourth truly brilliant, wonderfully bizarre novel by one of our great American novelists. Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has an …