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Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote was a highly regarded American novelist and military historian, best known for his three-volume history of the Civil War titled "The Civil War: A Narrative." Foote was born in Mississippi in 1916 and his life and writing paralleled the significant shifts that occurred in the American South from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South.

Foote's extensive knowledge and unique storytelling ability made him an excellent historian, and his trilogy on the Civil War is considered a remarkable literary and historical achievement. The three volumes of "The Civil War: A Narrative" provide a clear and intelligent account of the challenging and tormenting four-year period that had a profound impact on the American way of life. Foote's work is highly respected, and his trilogy is considered an essential addition to American historical collections.

For most of his career, Foote was relatively unknown to the general public until he appeared in Ken Burns's PBS documentary "The Civil War" in 1990. Through his appearances in the documentary, Foote introduced a generation of Americans to the Civil War, a conflict that he believed was central to the lives of all Americans. Foote's contributions to American history and literature were recognized in 2005 when he was interred in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis, beside the family plot of General Forrest. Foote passed away at the age of 88, leaving behind a lasting legacy as a master storyteller and a leading historian of the American Civil War.
Civil War Books
# Title Year
1 The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville 1958
2 The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian 1963
3 The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox 1974
4 Chickamauga and Other Civil War Stories 1993
Standalone Novels
# Title Year
1 Tournament 1949
2 Follow Me Down 1950
3 Love in a Dry Season 1951
4 Shiloh 1952
5 September, September 1978
Short Story Collections
# Title Year
1 Jordan County 1954
Non-Fiction Books
# Title Year
1 Stars in Their Courses 1994
2 The Beleaguered City 1995
3 The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy 1996
Literary Conversations Books
# Title Year
1 Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges 1969
2 Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 1981
3 Conversations with Graham Greene 1983
4 Conversations with Eudora Welty 1985
5 Conversations with Walker Percy 1985
6 Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985
7 Conversations with William Styron 1985
8 Conversations with Malcolm Cowley 1986
9 Conversations with Lillian Hellman 1986
10 Conversations with Tennessee Williams 1986
11 Conversations with Ernest Hemingway 1986
12 Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter 1987
13 Truman Capote: Conversations 1987
14 Conversations with Flannery O'Connor 1987
15 Conversations with Peter Taylor 1987
16 Conversations with Arthur Miller 1987
17 Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut 1988
18 Conversations with Edward Albee 1988
19 Conversations with Erskine Caldwell 1988
20 Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988
21 Conversations with Robert Graves 1989
22 Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates 1989
23 Conversations with Shelby Foote 1989
24 Conversations with Robertson Davies 1989
25 Conversations with James Baldwin 1989
26 Conversations with John Gardner 1990
27 Conversations with Richard Wilbur 1990
28 Conversations with Tom Wolfe 1990
29 Conversations with Raymond Carver 1990
30 Conversations with Eugene O'Neill 1990
31 Conversations with Reynolds Price 1991
32 Conversations with Bernard Malamud 1991
33 Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer 1991
34 Conversations with Nikki Giovanni 1992
35 Conversations With Thornton Wilder 1992
36 Conversations with Robert Coles 1992
37 Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher 1992
38 More Conversations with Walker Percy 1993
39 Conversations with Richard Wright 1993
40 Conversations with Paul Bowles 1993
41 Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris 1994
42 Conversations with Amiri Baraka 1994
43 Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994
44 Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994
45 Conversations with Henry Miller 1994
46 Conversations with Ernest Gaines 1995
47 Conversations with Ralph Ellison 1995
48 Conversations with Chester Himes 1995
49 Conversations with Susan Sontag 1995
50 Conversations with Ishmael Reed 1995
51 Conversations with Derek Walcott 1996
52 More Conversations with Eudora Welty 1996
53 Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 1996
54 Conversations with Pauline Kael 1996
55 Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 1997
56 Conversations with N. Scott Momaday 1997
57 Conversations with Chinua Achebe 1997
58 Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston 1998
59 Conversations with Denise Levertov 1998
60 Conversations With William Faulkner 1999
61 Conversations with E. L. Doctorow 1999
62 Conversations With John Fowles 1999
63 Conversations with Salman Rushdie 2000
64 Conversations with William S. Burroughs 2000
65 Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko 2000
66 Conversations with Chaim Potok 2001
67 Conversations with Richard Ford 2001
68 Conversations with Christopher Isherwood 2001
69 Conversations with Mary Gordon 2002
70 Conversations with Jim Harrison 2002
71 Conversations with Clarence Major 2002
72 Conversations with Margaret Walker 2002
73 Conversations with Erica Jong 2002
74 Elie Wiesel: Conversations 2002
75 Joseph Brodsky: Conversations 2003
76 Conversations with Rita Dove 2003
77 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003
78 Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks 2003
79 Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann 2003
80 Conversations with Gloria Naylor 2004
81 Conversations with Audre Lorde 2004
82 Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004
83 Conversations With John le Carré 2004
84 Conversations with Isaac Asimov 2005
85 Conversations with Don DeLillo 2005
86 Conversations with Gore Vidal 2005
87 Conversations with Robert Penn Warren 2005
88 Conversations with Jack Kerouac 2005
89 Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez 2005
90 Conversations with Thomas McGuane 2006
91 Conversations with Larry Brown 2007
92 Conversations with Sonia Sanchez 2007
93 Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007
94 Conversations with Leon Forrest 2007
95 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro 2008