Biographical Note
1916 Born to Shelby Dade and Lillian Rosenstock Foote of Greenville, Miss., 17 November. 1935-1937 Attended University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 1940-1944 Served first in Mississippi National Guard and then as field artillery captain in Northern Ireland. 1944-1945 Employed for several months by Associated Press in New York. 1945 Served in United States Marine Corps. 1945-1947 Employed by radio station WJPR, Greenville. 1949 First novel, Tournament, published. 1950 Follow Me Down published. 1951 Love in a Dry Season published. 1952 Shiloh! published. 1954 Jordan County: A Landscape in Narrative published. 1955-1960 Awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships. 1958 The Civil War: A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville (Volume I) published. 1963 The Civil War: A Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian (Volume II) published. 1963 Guest lecturer, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. 1963-1964 Ford Foundation fellow and playwright-in-residence, Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 1968 Writer-in-residence, Hollins College, Roanoke, Va. 1974 The Civil War: A Narrative: Red River to Appomattox (Volume III) published. 1978 September September published. 1989 Conversations with Shelby Foote published. Links to more information: