![]() He resented the city’s bureaucracy, its weather, the tailored suit jacket he wore every day to work. His time in London had been marked by noxious and near-constant concerns over protocol. “I began to wonder about protocol,” he later recalled. As the London bureau chief of the New York Herald Tribune, he’d already interviewed Marlon Brando and reported from the set of Goldfinger. He’d spent stretches of his earliest years in journalism trailing Elvis and Martin Luther King Jr. Born in 1933, he’d been raised along the southern border of Arkansas, in that region one of his narrators calls “the Arklatex”-where Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas converge-before serving in the Korean War. Portis was by then mostly inured to the aura of celebrity. ![]() ![]() Not long before Charles Portis visited Buckingham Palace in the summer of 1964, having secured a rare invitation to “Her Majesty’s Afternoon Party,” he found himself in a one-bedroom apartment getting summarily hammered with a group of foreign correspondents. ![]()
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