Shelby Foote Writer

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.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)	Foote Shelby Dade Jr. (full name)
Birth date	November 17, 1916
Birth name	Shelby Dade Foote Jr.
Birth place	Mississippi , Greenville Mississippi , United States
Date of death	June 27, 2005
Place of death	Tennessee , Memphis Tennessee , United States