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".