True Grit: A Novel by Charles Portis Scholastic and memoir into an epic

and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost” (The New York Times)

authentic story about growing up

Lock your doors and hide your little ones

borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs

Here are his superb war stories

True Grit: A Novel by Charles Portis Scholastic and memoir into an epic#1 New York Times bestseller. Larry McMurtry Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's most enduring and incomparable literary voices, and his novels have left an indelible mark on the American canon. True Grit, his most famous novel, was first published in 1968, and has garnered critical acclaim as well as enthusiastic praise from countless passionate fans for more than fifty years. This story of danger and adventure in the old west