

Six years later, in 1975, Wayne reprised his Academy Award-winning role as the tough hard drinking one-eyed lawman in the sequel film Rooster Cogburn. The novel was adapted for the screenplay of the 1969 film True Grit starring John Wayne, Kim Darby and Glen Campbell. True Grit is included in the Library of America of Portis' Collected Works. It is considered by some critics to be "one of the great American novels." The novel is told from the perspective of a woman named Mattie Ross, who recounts the time when she was 14 and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel, Tom Chaney. True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial in The Saturday Evening Post.
