Shelby Foote (1916–2005)
Forfatter af The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
Om forfatteren
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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Serier
Værker af Shelby Foote
The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863 (Modern Library) (1963) — Forfatter; Fortæller, nogle udgaver — 186 eksemplarer
The Civil War: A Narrative: Five Forks to Appomattox: Victory and Defeat (# 9 in series) (1974) 48 eksemplarer
The Civil War: A Narrative Second Manassas to Perryville The Sun Shines South (Volume 3) (1974) 47 eksemplarer
The Civil War, Vol 1: Fort Sumter to Kernstown: First Blood - The Thing Gets Underway (1958) 44 eksemplarer
The Civil War: A Narrative Pea Ridge to the Seven Days War Means Fighting, Fighting Means Killing (Volume 2) (1958) 42 eksemplarer
The Civil War 9 eksemplarer
L'enfant de la fievre 3 eksemplarer
The Civl War: a Narrative (Complete in 9 Volumes) 2 eksemplarer
The Merchant of Bristol 1 eksemplar
Shelby Foote the Civil War a Narrative Set Volumes 13-14 Time Life Books (time life books) 1 eksemplar
The Civil War : a narrative 1 eksemplar
Civil war: a narrative Red River to Appomattox 1 eksemplar
Chickamauga 1 eksemplar
The novelist's view of history 1 eksemplar
Forst Sumter to Perryville 1 eksemplar
Fredricksburg to Merdian 1 eksemplar
Echoes of Shiloh 1 eksemplar
The Letters in Perspective 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Bidragyder — 429 eksemplarer
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Bidragyder — 153 eksemplarer
Walker Percy Remembered: A Portrait in the Words of Those Who Knew Him (2006) — Bidragyder — 19 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1992 (1992) — Author "Stand up for Bastards!" — 17 eksemplarer
New Short Novels By Jean Stafford, Shelby Foote, Elizabeth Etnier, Clyde Miller (1954) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Foote, Shelby
- Andre navne
- Foote, Shelby Dade, Jr. (birth name)
- Fødselsdato
- 1916-11-17
- Dødsdag
- 2005-06-27
- Begravelsessted
- Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Greenville, Mississippi, USA
- Dødssted
- Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Dødsårsag
- heart attack from pulmonary embolism
- Bopæl
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Pensacola, Florida, USA
Mobile, Alabama, USA - Uddannelse
- University of North Carolina
- Erhverv
- novelist
historian - Relationer
- Foote, Horton (cousin)
Percy, Walker (friend)
Percy, William Alexander (friend)
Spencer, Elizabeth (colleague) - Organisationer
- Fellowship of Southern Writers (founding member)
Mississippi National Guard
United States Marine Corps
Alpha Tau Omega
United States Army - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- 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)
Medlemmer
Discussions
Shelfby Foote v. Bruce Catton v. James McPherson i American Civil War (juli 2017)
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