Love in a Dry Season is a tour de force in which the author links two separate stories centered on the subject of money by aĬharacter who tries and fails to obtain a place in the financial elite of a small delta town. This method is interesting because it allows eight characters-including protagonist and minor characters-to comment in a limited first person viewpoint on their reactions to a violent murder. Follow Me Down takes a single plot but incorporates a multiple point of view. Tournament is a character study-approaching biography-with an objective omniscient point of view. His novels show a serious craftsman at work.įoote experimented with technique. However, one should remember that his entree into the literary world came as a promising novelist. Shelby Foote appears to succeed as a historian, not as a novelist his multi-volume history The Civil War: A Narrative shows his ability to best advantage. Member: Society of American Historians, 1980 American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1994. Litt.: University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 1981 Southwestern University, Memphis, Tennessee, 1982 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1992 University of South Carolina, 1991 University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 1994 College of William & Mary, 1999 Loyola University, 1999. Louis Literary award, 1992 Nevins-Freeman award, 1992 New York Public Library Literary Lion, 1994, 1998 Ingersoll-Weaver award, 1997 Richard Wright award, 1997. Awards: Guggenheim fellowship, 1955, 1956, 1957 Ford fellowship, for drama, 1963 Fletcher Pratt award, for non-fiction, 1964, 1974 University of North Carolina award, 1975 Dos Passos prize for Literature, 1988 Charles Frankel award, 1992 St.

Career: Novelist-in-residence, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, November 1963 playwright-in-residence, Arena Stage, Washington, D.C., 1963-64 writer-in-residence, Hollins College, Virginia, 1968.

Military Service: Served in the United States Army, 1940-44: Captain, and Marine Corps, 1944-45. Education: The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1935-37.

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