“He had this great amount of success with True Grit. A second version in 2010, starring Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld, was directed by the Coen Brothers. A film version followed in 1969, starring John Wayne in an Academy Award-winning performance. “People do not give it credence that a 14-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day,” it opens, with typical deadpan humour. True Grit followed in 1968, telling of how 14-year-old Mattie recruits deputy marshal Rooster Cogburn, a man she believes to have “grit” like her, to help find the man who shot her father. About a Texan who sets out for New York, meeting his true love, the second shortest midget in show business and a chicken on the way, it was described by Entertainment Weekly as “a glimpse of how a 20th-century Mark Twain might write”. He left journalism in 1964 to write full-time, publishing his first novel, Norwood, in 1966.
And we are proud of the way he showcased our beautiful state.”īorn and educated in Arkansas, Portis served as a sergeant in the US Marine Corps during the Korean war before becoming a journalist, writing for papers including the New York Herald Tribune. Stephen King said that Portis was a “ true American original”, while the governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson said he “will be remembered for generations to come.
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