Shelby Foote

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Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote Death

Shelby passed away on June 27, 2005 at the age of 88 in Memphis, Tennessee. Shelby's cause of death was heart failure.

Shelby Foote death quick facts:
  • When did Shelby Foote die?

    June 27, 2005
  • How did Shelby Foote die? What was the cause of death?

    Heart failure
  • How old was Shelby Foote when died?

    88
  • Where did Shelby Foote die? What was the location of death?

    Memphis, Tennessee

Shelby Foote Birthday and Date of Death

Shelby Foote was born on November 17, 1916 and died on June 27, 2005. Shelby was 88 years old at the time of death.

Birthday: November 17, 1916
Date of Death: June 27, 2005
Age at Death: 88

Shelby Foote - Biography

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.

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