`True Grit´ Author Charles Portis Dead At 86
(ArtsJournal Media)

“[He] was a master of shaggy-dog stories set on the American frontier or just beyond the Southern border, where his characters journeyed to recoup a debt, mete out justice or track down a runaway spouse. ... By 1998, when author and journalist Ron Rosenbaum called him ‘our least-known great novelist,’ four of his five books […]