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Charles Portis
American writer.
Born December 28th, 1933 in El Dorado.
Died February 17th, 2020 at 86 years old in Little Rock (Alzheimer's disease). [ref]
Occupations
novelist, screenwriter, writer
Wikipedia
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Rabindranath Tagore