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June 27, 2005 (88 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Scorpio
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Celebrities born on November 17
Born in 1916
Born in Greenville, Mississippi
Scorpio named Shelby
Historians from Mississippi
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First name Shelby
Shelby Foote
Shelby Dade Foote Jr. is an American writer, historian and journalist. Although he considers himself primarily a novelist, he is currently best known for The Civil War: A Narrative, a trilogy of American Civil War history. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote's life and work paralleled a radical transition of the agricultural system of the old south to the new era of civil rights in the south. Foote was not known to the public until he appeared in Ken Burns' 1990 PBS documentary film The Civil War, where he introduced the American generation to a war he believed to be "at the heart of their hearts." life. Me". Foote took all of his handwriting with a stylus, then copied the results into a typewriter.
BornShelby Dade Foote Jr, November 17, 1916, Greenville, Mississippi, United States
DiedJune 27, 2005, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Occupationnovelist, historian
Notable worksThe Civil War: A Narrative
Children2

About Shelby Foote

Historian Shelby Foote was born in Greenville, Mississippi, United States on November 17, 1916. He dies at the age of 88, on June 27, 2005.

He is well known for his three-volume masterpiece, The Civil War: A Narrative, which is an outstanding Civil War historian and author. In Director Ken Burns' PBS mini-series The Civil War, he was one of the key historians interviewed.

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Shelby Foote before becoming famous

Shelby Foote was born in the Zodiac sign Scorpio (The Scorpion), and 1916 is also the year of Dragon (龍) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He wrote for the university's literary journal while at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Tournament, his first novel, was released in 1949.

Achievement of Shelby Foote

His comprehensive Civil War histories cover everything from personal events (such as Robert E. Lee's sorrowful post-surrender address to his Confederate troops) to large-scale military strategy.

Shelby Foote's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

In Greenville, Mississippi, he was born, and in Memphis, Tennessee, he died. He married Tess Lavery, Peggy Desommes, and Gwyn Rainer three times and had two children.

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He regarded Novelist William Faulkner, a fellow southern author, as his literary guru.

William Faulkner (1897 - 1962) (Novelist)
William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)

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Shelby Foote Income & Net worth

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