What is Shelby Foote's full name?
Shelby Dade Foote, Jr.
Shelby Foote date of birth:
November 17, 1916
How old was Shelby Foote when died?
88
Where was Shelby Foote born?
Greenville, Mississippi
When did Shelby Foote die?
June 27, 2005
Where did Shelby Foote die?
Memphis, Tennessee
Why did Shelby Foote die?
Heart Failure
Shelby Foote body shape:
Average
What color is Shelby Foote's hair?
Salt and Pepper
Is Shelby Foote gay or straight?
Straight
What religion is Shelby Foote?
Anglican / Episcopalian
What is Shelby Foote's ethnicity?
White
What is Shelby Foote nationality?
American
Where did Shelby Foote go to university?
University of North Carolina (attended 1935-37)
What is Shelby Foote's occupation?
Author, Historian
Shelby Foote claim to fame:
Shiloh
Short Biography
Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a massive, three-volume history of the war. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote was relatively unknown to the general public for most of his life until his appearance in Ken Burns's PBS documentary The Civil War in 1990, where he introduced a generation of Americans to a war that he believed was "central to all our lives". Foote did all his writing by hand with an old-fashioned nib pen, disdaining the typewriter.