Shelby Foote
Age: 88
Summary: novelist
and historian whose Southern storyteller's touch inspired millions to
read his multi-volume work on the Civil War who wrote six novels but
was best remembered for his three-volume, 3,000-page history entitled The Civil War: A Narrative and his appearance on the PBS-TV series The Civil War,
and whose work was ranked No. 15 on the Modern Library's list of the
20th century's 100 best English-language works of nonfiction.
Cause of Death: After a heart attack
Born: November 17, 1916
Died: June 27, 2005
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
