Shelby Foote (1916–2005)
Autore di The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
Sull'Autore
Author and historian Shelby Foote was born in Greenville, Mississippi on November 17, 1916. He was educated at the University of North Carolina and served with the U.S. Army artillery during World War II. He was dismissed in 1944 for using a government vehicle against regulations. He later enlisted mostra altro in the U.S. Marine Corps, but did not see active duty. After being discharged from the military, he briefly became a journalist. He has written short stories, plays, and longer works, but is best known for his three-volume narrative history of the Civil War. He was awarded Guggenheim fellowships in 1958, 1959, and 1960, a Ford Foundation grant in 1963, and the Dos Passos Prize for Literature in 1988. In 2003, Foote received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. The Helmerich Award is presented annually by the Tulsa Library Trust. He appeared in Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War. He died at home in Memphis, Tennessee, on June 27, 2005 due to a heart attack. He was interred in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Serie
Opere di Shelby Foote
The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863 (Modern Library) (1963) — Autore; Narratore, alcune edizioni — 187 copie
The Civil War: A Narrative: Five Forks to Appomattox: Victory and Defeat (# 9 in series) (1974) 48 copie
The Civil War: A Narrative Second Manassas to Perryville The Sun Shines South (Volume 3) (1974) 47 copie
The Civil War, Vol 1: Fort Sumter to Kernstown: First Blood - The Thing Gets Underway (1958) 44 copie
The Civil War: A Narrative Pea Ridge to the Seven Days War Means Fighting, Fighting Means Killing (Volume 2) (1958) 42 copie
The Civil War 10 copie
L'enfant de la fievre 3 copie
Echoes of Shiloh 1 copia
The Letters in Perspective 1 copia
The Merchant of Bristol 1 copia
Chickamauga 1 copia
The Civil War : a narrative 1 copia
The novelist's view of history 1 copia
Opere correlate
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Collaboratore — 429 copie
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Collaboratore — 154 copie
Walker Percy Remembered: A Portrait in the Words of Those Who Knew Him (2006) — Collaboratore — 19 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1992 (1992) — Author "Stand up for Bastards!" — 18 copie
New Short Novels By Jean Stafford, Shelby Foote, Elizabeth Etnier, Clyde Miller (1954) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Foote, Shelby
- Altri nomi
- Foote, Shelby Dade, Jr. (birth name)
- Data di nascita
- 1916-11-17
- Data di morte
- 2005-06-27
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Greenville, Mississippi, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Causa della morte
- heart attack from pulmonary embolism
- Luogo di residenza
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Pensacola, Florida, USA
Mobile, Alabama, USA - Istruzione
- University of North Carolina
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
historian - Relazioni
- Foote, Horton (cousin)
Percy, Walker (friend)
Percy, William Alexander (friend)
Spencer, Elizabeth (colleague) - Organizzazioni
- Fellowship of Southern Writers (founding member)
Mississippi National Guard
United States Marine Corps
Alpha Tau Omega
United States Army - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Charles Frankel Prize (1992)
Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement (1999)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1994)
John Dos Passos Prize (1988)
Richard M. Weaver Award (1997)
Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award (2003)
Utenti
Discussioni
Shelfby Foote v. Bruce Catton v. James McPherson in American Civil War (Luglio 2017)
Recensioni
Liste
THE WAR ROOM (1)
Favourite Books (3)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 59
- Opere correlate
- 18
- Utenti
- 11,566
- Popolarità
- #2,035
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 194
- ISBN
- 194
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 59