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	Shelby Foote, Mississippi writer
		Shelby Foote was born on November 17, 1916, in Greenville., Mississippi.
		Foote’s father was buried in the family cemetery, which was established many generations earlier near Rollingfork, and is the place Shelby Foote eventually expects to lie (White 14).
		The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy.
	www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Foote.html (2792 words)

	Shelby Foote, Historian and Novelist, Dies at 88 - New York Times
		Shelby Foote, the historian whose incisive, seasoned commentary - delivered in a drawl so mellifluous that one critic called it "molasses over hominy" - evoked the Civil War for millions in the 11-hour PBS documentary in 1990, died on Monday at a Memphis hospital He was 88 and lived in Memphis.
		Shelby Foote was born on Nov. 17, 1916, in Greenville, Miss., the cultural center of the Mississippi Delta.
		Foote's great-grandfather, Capt. Hezekiah William Foote, a slave owner, fought for the Confederacy at Shiloh (where, he reported, his saber was bent and his horse's tail was shot off) and later became a judge.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/06/29/books/29foote.html?ex=1277697600&en=96c806b439727bbf&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (900 words)

	[percy-l] Shelby Foote
		Shelby Foote was born on Nov. 17, 1916, in Greenville, Miss., the cultural center of the Mississippi Delta.
		Foote's novels were treated respectfully: Southern literary journals carried long analyses, with at least one essayist faulting the literary establishment for its shameful neglect of his achievement, and French critics found resemblances in his experiments with time and points of view between the Foote world of Jordan County and William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County).
		Foote accepted the historian's standards of evidence without the baggage of footnotes, for which he was faulted by some academics, who also criticized his sketchy attention to politics, economics and diplomacy.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/percy-l/2005-June/000861.html (1322 words)

	Historian and novelist Shelby Foote dies - Books - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		Foote's soft drawl and gentlemanly manner on the Burns film made him an instant celebrity, a role with which he was unaccustomed and, apparently, somewhat uncomfortable.
		Foote was born November 7, 1916, in Greenville, a small Delta town with a literary bent.
		Foote said writing by hand helped him slow down to a manageable pace and was more personal that using a typewriter, though he often prepared a typed copy of his day's writing after it was finished.
	www.smh.com.au /news/books/historian-and-novelist-shelby-foote-dies/2005/06/29/1119724672654.html (791 words)

	Shelby Foote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shelby Foote (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was a noted American author and historian of the American Civil War.
		Foote was born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, the largest city in the primarily agrarian region called the Mississippi Delta.
		Foote was a Guggenheim Fellow three times and served as a lecturer at the University of Virginia and the University of Memphis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shelby_Foote (759 words)

	Shelby Foote. - By Field Maloney - Slate Magazine
		Foote was universally recognized for his three-volume history The Civil War: A Narrative, which he published beginning in 1958, and more recently for his star turn in Ken Burns' 1991 PBS documentary.
		Foote once told a Paris Review interviewer that he subscribed to the Roman belief that "history was intended to publicize, if you will, the lives of great men so that we would have something to emulate." Nowadays, that sounds hopelessly old-fashioned.
		Foote came to history out of the tradition of the Southern storyteller, but his achievement as a researcher and archivist shouldn't be overlooked.
	www.slate.com /id/2121924 (1274 words)

	Shelby Foote
		Shelby Foote, who cut such a courtly figure in Ken Burns's PBS series The Civil War, is an uncommonly graceful writer as well, and this careful study of the 1863 Gettysburg campaign assumes the contours of a classical tragedy.
		Foote positions readers on the field of battle itself, among swirling smoke and clattering grapeshot, and invites us to feel for ourselves its hellishness: "men on both sides were hollering as they milled about and fired, some cursing, others praying...
		Foote spent much of his career reconstructing the Civil War in a 1.6 million-word trilogy (he was the smooth-drawling storyteller in Kenneth Burns's television series on the conflict).
	www.owp.us /ShelbyFoote.asp (1010 words)

	Shelby Foote buried at historic cemetery - The Boston Globe
		MEMPHIS -- Historian Shelby Foote was buried yesterday under a huge magnolia tree near the graves of Civil War combatants whose exploits he chronicled in one of the best-known books about the conflict.
		Foote's grave is beside the family plot of former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the war's most celebrated, and sometimes reviled, commanders.
		Foote often visited Shiloh, the scene of some of the Civil War's most vicious fighting and one of his favorite battlefields.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/07/01/shelby_foote_buried_at_historic_cemetery (429 words)

	Shelby Foote, Mississippi writer
		Foote’s father was buried in the family cemetery, which was established many generations earlier near Rollingfork, and is the place Shelby Foote eventually expects to lie (White 14).
		Although Shelby Foote began his career writing novels, (he wrote five in five years), he is known primarily for his huge three-volume narrative history of the Civil War, which he began in the early 1950's and finished in 1974.
		Historian Shelby Foote is convincing in his role as commentator in Ken Burns’s 11—hour PBS documentary The Civil War because of his air of relaxed authority.
	shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Foote.html (2792 words)

	Shelby Foote
		Shelby Dade Foote was soon promoted to management at Armour and it appeared he would continue to climb the company ranks, moving frequently.
		Foote was unable to remain a civilian, however, and he enlisted in the Marines in 1945, serving as a stateside intelligence officer until the end of the war.
		Foote was upset by the intolerance demonstrated by Southern segregationists.
	www.lib.utk.edu /refs/tnauthors/authors/foote-s.html (1315 words)

	USATODAY.com - Shelby Foote, storyteller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		Shelby Foote, the historian and novelist who died Monday night in Memphis at age 88, may be the only TV star who wrote with a dip pen.
		Foote was born in segregated Mississippi and grew up with an appreciation of the old Southern aristocracy, but he was praised for his even-handed accounts of the battle between North and South.
		Foote's mother gave him a copy for this 17th birthday, and Foote said in a 1994 interview that he had reread it nine times.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-06-28-shelby-foote-obit_x.htm (838 words)

	Shelby Foote
		Foote's mother--who never remarried--moved with her son back to Greenville, where Foote met author Alexander Percy and later become close friends with his nephew, Walker Percy.
		Foote agreed, but only on the condition that he be allowed to write a monumental trilogy on the subject.
		Foote once told Faulkner on one of their outings, "You know, I have every right to be a better writer than you.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-111704-foote.html (911 words)

	Online NewsHour: Remembering Civil War Historian Shelby Foote -- June 29, 2005
		SHELBY FOOTE: Any understanding of this nation has to be based and I mean really based on the understanding of Civil War.
		SHELBY FOOTE: And he landed square into the main body of the union troops.
		SHELBY FOOTE: Before the war, it was said "the United States are." Grammatically, it was spoken that way and thought of as a collection of independent states.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/jan-june05/foote_6-29.html (451 words)

	Bloggledygook: Shelby Foote, RIP.
		Civil War historian Shelby Foote, probably, because of Ken Burns' 1990 PBS documentary, the most recognized chronicler of the War Between the States, has died.
		Foote was featured throughout the documentary and at least for me, provided a sense of fascination with the War that I had lacked up until then.
		Foote seemed to me to be a kind of Grand Uncle who drew you to his knee to tell you the stories that illuminated your people's history.
	www.bloggledygook.com /bloggledygook/2005/06/shelby_foote_ri.html (224 words)

	The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy. - book reviews Commonweal - Find Articles
		The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy.
		Foote, though, took his relative obscurity as evidence that he was on the right artistic track.
		The reader, hunting Foote's letters for contextual clues to Percy's whereabouts and activities, may be reminded of that writer's 1976 novel Lancelot, with its silent, mysterious listener.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1252/is_n4_v124/ai_19277994 (949 words)

	Obituary: Shelby Foote \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Then, in 1985, when Foote was approaching the age of 70, he was asked to serve as a consultant on Ken Burns's television history of the civil war for the US Public Broadcasting System (PBS).
		Foote's father was an executive in the Armour meat-packing company, and after his early death in 1922, the family settled in Greenville, Mississippi.
		Foote did not hesitate to affirm that he would have fought for the south; when he used the term "southerner" he meant "white southerner".
	books.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,1518756,00.html (1053 words)

	Shelby Foote, 88; writer illuminated the Civil War - The Boston Globe
		Foote came from distinguished backgrounds on both sides of his family; one ancestor was the first governor of Kentucky, and a great-grandfather was a judge who fought for the Confederacy at Shiloh.
		Foote once wrote, ''they barely had the money at their deaths to pay for the shovel that buried them." He would draw on this rich, melancholy family history in his fiction.
		Foote made a cameo appearance in his 1994 documentary series, ''Baseball." He described a boyhood visit to Babe Ruth's hotel room while the slugger was barnstorming through the South.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/06/29/shelby_foote_88_writer_illuminated_the_civil_war?mode=PF (982 words)

	Shelby Foote Papers Inventory (#4038)
		Shelby Foote, novelist and historian, who was born in Greenville, Miss., in 1916; attended the University of North Carolina, 1935-1937; served in the Mississippi National Guard and then as field artillery captain in Northern Ireland, 1940-1944; and worked for the Associated Press, 1944-1945.
		Chiefly letters from Shelby Foote to Walker Percy, a close friend who was a fellow student in high school in Greenville and at the University of North Carolina.
		Picture of Shelby Foote, January 1951, with inscription by Foote on verso: "Portrait of the Artist as a Bookend"; and photograph of Shelby Foote and Dr. Don Wetherbee (roommate of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy), 1992.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/htm/04038.html (1620 words)

	Southern Author Shelby Foote profiled by Southern Literary Review
		Shelby Dade Foote, Jr., was born in Greenville, Mississippi, on November 17, 1916, While in high school, he served as editor of, The Pica.
		Shelby Foote attended the University of North Carolina from 1935 to 1937.
		Shelby Foote lived with his third wife in Memphis, Tennessee, until his death in 2005.
	www.southernlitreview.com /authors/shelby_foote.htm (283 words)

	Remembering Shelby Foote - Commentary by J.A. Davis
		The news of the death of Shelby Foote is no exception.
		Shelby would have never been well recognized or read without his highly popular appearances on Ken Burns' PBS series.
		It may be interesting for you to know that Shelby wasn't at all times happy with some parts of that series.
	georgiaheritagecouncil.org /site2/commentary/davis_shelby_foote.phtml (702 words)

	MWP: Shelby Foote (1916-2005)
		Shelby Jr.’s fixation of the family’s losses would later become a theme in his work, but in the meantime, this vacuum forced his father to become part of an emerging Southern middle class.
		Foote suffered through the final volume — finally published in 1974 — a volume that would take the same amount of time to write as had the first two volumes.
		Shelby Foote served as a member on the famous (or infamous) Modern Library board who selected the 100 Best Novels written in the 20th Century.
	www.olemiss.edu /depts/english/ms-writers/dir/foote_shelby (2076 words)

	Shelby Foote on the Meaning of History and the Role of the Historian
		Foote believed that history was best understood as the instructive story of how great individuals and great events had shaped reality.
		He was a master in the form of narrative history, but he held to the rather quaint and eccentric notion that the basic facts of history should not bend to accommodate modern ideologies.
		Foote and Percy forged a life-long friendship that sustained each other through decades of trial, fame, and literature.
	www.albertmohler.com /blog_read.php?id=161 (860 words)

	Oregon Commentator » Blog Archive » Shelby Foote Dead at 88
		Shelby Foote, noted novelist and historian, was found dead today in his Memphis, TN home.
		Foote said he preferred Johnny Walker Black label on ice when he was indoors and straight bourbon when outdoors.
		Foote’s aforementioned three volume series on the Civil War has often been criticised for only barely mentioning politics, slavery, and economics, as well as for flatly admitting in the author’s notes (I believe it’s the author’s notes, I don’t have my copy here) that he has sympathies for (and ancestry with) the southern side.
	www.oregoncommentator.com /2005/06/29/shelby-foote-dead-at-88 (411 words)

	Collected Miscellany - Shelby Foote, 88, Died Monday
		Foote worked on the Civil War history for 20 years, using his skills as a novelist to write in a flowing, narrative style.
		Though a native Southerner, Foote did not favor South in his history or novels and was not counted among those Southern historians who regard the Civil War as the great Lost Cause.
		The first interview, which is from 1950, reports on a tempting idea for me. It says Foote didn't launch his writing career "until he decided that the only way to write was to settle down and write." He quit his copy-writing job and began fiction writing.
	collectedmiscellany.com /archives/000680.php (349 words)

	Shelby Foote Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		American novelist and historian Shelby Foote (born 1916) is best known for his three-volume history of the Civil War.
		Shelby Foote was born November 17, 1916, in Greenville, Mississippi, to Shelby Dade Foote, a business executive, and Lillian (Rosenstock) Foote.
		In 1985, Foote received a call from Ken Burns, a documentary-film maker whom he admired for his treatment of the life of the former governor of Louisiana and senator Huey Long.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/shelby-foote (1636 words)

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