Birthdate: November 17, 1916
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Greenville, Mississippi, United States
Died: June 27, 2005
Shelby Dade Foote Jr. was a prominent American writer, historian, and journalist known for his acclaimed three-volume history of the American Civil War titled The Civil War: A Narrative. He primarily identified as a novelist but gained widespread recognition for his work after appearing in Ken Burns’s PBS documentary The Civil War in 1990. Foote’s handwritten work, done with a nib pen, vividly portrayed the transition from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. While well-received, his writings have faced criticism from professional historians and academics in the 21st century.
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