Landmark western author’s most famous novel gave John Wayne an Oscar-winning role, and inspired the Coen brothers
Charles Portis, the reclusive author of the western True Grit, in which a 14-year-old girl sets out to avenge her father’s murder, has died at the age of 86.
Portis’s brother Jonathan told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that the writer died on Monday in a hospice in Little Rock, Arkansas. He had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
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