Shelby Foote - 1916
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Austin Peay State University, Tennessee
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Abdifatah Sahal and Mississippi students Suzsan Deville and Robert Gardner.I. Introduction Shelby Foote is a Tennesse writer that tells about his controversial life. He enjoys writing in his spare time; Foote spent a majority of his life writing books and novels. II. Biography
Foote was born in Greenville, Mississippi on November 17, 1916. He was born the only child to Shelby Dade and Lillian Rosenstock Foote. Foote's family never stayed in one
town over six months. His father's company moved them to Jackson, then to Vicksburg, and briefly to Pensacola. His father's work grew rapidly with the company and transferred
him to Mobile. Foote's father past away in the summer of 1922, from blood poisoning. His father was buried in the family cemetery on Mounds Plantation near Rolling Fork, in Greenville.
Foote and his mother moved back to Greenville to stay with his aunt. He enrolled in school at Greenville high school and it was there that he developed his artistic skills during
school. He was a year behind his original class but he graduated in the spring of 1935. In the summer of 1944, he married a woman named Tess Lavery. They were married in a little
church. One year later, Foote joined the Marines and his wife stayed with his mother until he was out. By November of 1945, Tess and Foote lived in their own apartment. Foote took a job
writing for a radio station WJPR in Greenville. During this time the town offered a great deal of promising writers. Foote later on moved to Memphis, and there he lectured at Memphis
State University. He was already underway on writing his books. Foote is a great writer that wrote and did many interviews. He was well liked by his peers.
Other people have interviewed him and enjoyed his writings. His work is highly appreciated by others. Good reviews are said about his first book. Foote is a tremendous
writer who served in the civil war and his writings come from his personal experiences. III. Literary Works Foote, Shelby Du Pont Storms Charleston. American heritage, 1963, pp. 28-34.
Foote, Shelby The Novelist's View of History. "Expressionism" Mississippi Quarterly, 1964, pp.219-225. Foote ,Shelby The Civil War. New York: Random House, Civil War History.
IV. Bibliograghy Carter, Williams C. "Conversation with Shelby Foote." Florida History, 1987 pp 115-117
This essay was submitted by a student of Judith Broadbent, a teacher at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee.