Charles Portis, Elusive Author of ‘True Grit,’ Dies at 86

Portis is the one who isn't John Wayne (Encyclopedia of Arkansas)

(NYTimes) Charles Portis, the publicity-shy author of “True Grit” and a short list of other novels that drew a cult following and accolades as the work of possibly the nation’s best unknown writer, died on Monday at a hospice in Little Rock, Ark. He was 86. Continued