Shelby Foote
Shelby Foote
Shelby Dade Foote, Jr.was an American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a 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 little known to the general public until his appearance in Ken Burns's PBS documentary The Civil War in 1990, where he...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth17 November 1916
CityGreenville, MS
CountryUnited States of America