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Full Name: Charles Portis
Biography:
(1933-2020) Author, novelist. Charles Portis was born in El Dorado, Arkansas, and died in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Author's Timeline:
1933 (Unknown) County
Charles McColl Portis was born in El Dorado, Arkansas, on December 28, 1933. 
1960 New York County
Mr. Portis began reporting for The New York Herald Tribune in Manhattan, New York, in 1960. 
1968 (Unknown) County
True Grit
(Pub: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 0671763806 ISBN-13: 978-0671763800)
Novel.  
1966 (Unknown) County
Norwood
(Pub: Simon & Schuster ISBN: )
Novel. 
1979 (Unknown) County
The Dog of the South
(Pub: Knopf ISBN: 0394506146 ISBN-13: 978-0394506142)
Novel. 
1985 (Unknown) County
Masters of Atlantis
(Pub: Knopf ISBN: 0394546830 ISBN-13: 978-0394546834)
Novel. 
1991 (Unknown) County
Gringos
(Pub: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 0671724576 ISBN-13: 978-0671724573)
Novel. 
2012 (Unknown) County
Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany
(Pub: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies ISBN: 1935106503 ISBN-13: 978-1935106500)
Collection of various writings. 
2020 (Unknown) County
Charles Portis died at a hospice in Little Rock, Arkansas, on February 17, 2020. 
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