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Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist. Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the American Civil War.
Jun 29, 2005 · Shelby Foote, the historian whose incisive, seasoned commentary -- delivered in a drawl so mellifluous that one critic called it ''molasses over hominy'' -- evoked the Civil War for millions in...
Jun 23, 2024 · Shelby Foote (born November 17, 1916, Greenville, Mississippi, U.S.—died June 27, 2005, Memphis, Tennessee) was an American historian, novelist, and short-story writer known for his works treating the United States Civil War and the American South.
Jun 28, 2005 · Novelist and historian Shelby Foote died Monday night. He was 88. The native Mississippian gained a sort of celebrity when he lent his gravelly voice to Ken Burns' PBS documentary series...
The Civil War: A Narrative (1958–1974) is a three volume, 2,968-page, 1.2 million-word history of the American Civil War by Shelby Foote. Although previously known as a novelist, Foote is most famous for this non-fictional narrative history.
Jun 29, 2005 · MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Novelist and historian Shelby Foote, whose Southern storyteller’s touch inspired millions to read his multivolume work on the Civil War, has died. He was 88. Mr. Foote died...
Jun 29, 2005 · MEMPHIS, Tennessee: Shelby Foote, the novelist and historian whose Southern storyteller's touch inspired millions to read his multivolume work on the Civil War, has died. He was...
This final volume of Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history of the Civil War brings to life the military endgame, the surrender at Appomattox, and the tragic dénouement of the war—the assassination of President Lincoln.
The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Kernstown: First Blood--The Thing Gets Underway. by Shelby Foote. 4.30 · 97 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1958 · 3 editions.
Jun 29, 2005 · Southern novelist and historian Shelby Foote, who chronicled Mississippi Delta life in his fiction and created a panoramic history of the Civil War, died Monday in Memphis, Tenn., his wife, Gwyn,...
