Foote died Monday night, said his widow, Gwyn. The Mississippi native and longtime Memphis resident wrote a stirring, three-volume, 3,000-page history of the Civil War, as well as six novels. "He had ...

He wrote several novels, including "Shiloh," and works of history, notably the three-volume "The Civil War: A Narrative." When "The Civil War" aired on PBS in 1990, Foote became a celebrity.

who asked Foote to write a one-volume history of the Civil War. Foote replied that he couldn't do it in one book; it would take three. And at that point, Foote began a project that would consume ...

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Foote died Monday night, said his widow, Gwyn. The Mississippi native and longtime Memphis resident wrote a stirring, three-volume, 3,000-page history of the Civil War, as well as six novels.

A look at the life of novelist and Civil War historian Shelby Foote, who died Monday in Memphis at the age of 88. It took Shelby Foote 20 years to pen a three-volume, 3,000 page history of the ...

The native Mississippian gained a sort of celebrity when he lent his gravelly voice to Ken Burns' PBS documentary series The Civil War. Foote spent 20 years working on his three-volume ...