True Grit (novel)
 True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial in The Saturday Evening Post. The novel is told from the perspective of a woman named Mattie Ross who recounts the time when she was 14 years old and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel named Tom Chaney. It is considered by some critics to be one of the great American novels.In 1969 it was adapted for the screen as a Western film True Grit starring John Wayne as U.S.