Shelby Foote (1916–2005)
Autor(a) de The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Shelby Foote
The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863 (Modern Library) (1963) — Autor; Narrador, algumas edições — 187 exemplares
The Civil War: A Narrative: Five Forks to Appomattox: Victory and Defeat (# 9 in series) (1974) 48 exemplares
The Civil War: A Narrative Second Manassas to Perryville The Sun Shines South (Volume 3) (1974) 47 exemplares
The Civil War, Vol 1: Fort Sumter to Kernstown: First Blood - The Thing Gets Underway (1958) 44 exemplares
The Civil War: A Narrative Pea Ridge to the Seven Days War Means Fighting, Fighting Means Killing (Volume 2) (1958) 42 exemplares
The Civil War 10 exemplares
L'enfant de la fievre 3 exemplares
The Civl War: a Narrative (Complete in 9 Volumes) 2 exemplares
Echoes of Shiloh 1 exemplar
The Letters in Perspective 1 exemplar
The Merchant of Bristol 1 exemplar
Chickamauga 1 exemplar
The Civil War : a narrative 1 exemplar
Shelby Foote the Civil War a Narrative Set Volumes 13-14 Time Life Books (time life books) 1 exemplar
The novelist's view of history 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Contribuidor — 429 exemplares
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Contribuidor — 153 exemplares
Walker Percy Remembered: A Portrait in the Words of Those Who Knew Him (2006) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1992 (1992) — Author "Stand up for Bastards!" — 17 exemplares
New Short Novels By Jean Stafford, Shelby Foote, Elizabeth Etnier, Clyde Miller (1954) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Foote, Shelby
- Outros nomes
- Foote, Shelby Dade, Jr. (birth name)
- Data de nascimento
- 1916-11-17
- Data de falecimento
- 2005-06-27
- Localização do túmulo
- Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Greenville, Mississippi, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Causa da morte
- heart attack from pulmonary embolism
- Locais de residência
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Pensacola, Florida, USA
Mobile, Alabama, USA - Educação
- University of North Carolina
- Ocupações
- novelist
historian - Relações
- Foote, Horton (cousin)
Percy, Walker (friend)
Percy, William Alexander (friend)
Spencer, Elizabeth (colleague) - Organizações
- Fellowship of Southern Writers (founding member)
Mississippi National Guard
United States Marine Corps
Alpha Tau Omega
United States Army - Prémios e menções honrosas
- 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)
Membros
Discussions
Shelfby Foote v. Bruce Catton v. James McPherson em American Civil War (Julho 2017)
Críticas
Listas
THE WAR ROOM (1)
Favourite Books (3)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 59
- Also by
- 18
- Membros
- 11,536
- Popularidade
- #2,040
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 194
- ISBN
- 194
- Línguas
- 5
- Marcado como favorito
- 59