Short Story Collections
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Escape Velocity | 2012 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Norwood | 1966 | Buy |
| True Grit | 1968 | Buy |
| The Dog of the South | 1979 | Buy |
| Masters of Atlantis | 1985 | Buy |
| Gringos | 1991 | Buy |
Charles Portis was an American novelist whose small body of work has earned an outsized reputation. True Grit (1968), his best-known novel, tells the story of Mattie Ross’s pursuit of her father’s killer with the help of the one-eyed Marshal Rooster Cogburn. The novel was adapted into two films and remains one of the defining works of American frontier fiction.
Portis published only five novels in his career, but each has its devoted readers. The Dog of the South (1979) and Masters of Atlantis (1985) are comic novels prized by those who have found them, while Norwood (1966) and Gringos (1991) round out a catalog that is remarkably consistent in quality. He published Escape Velocity, a collection of journalism and stories, in 2012.