Awards & Winners

Shelby Foote

Date of Birth 17-November-1916
Place of Birth Greenville
(Washington County, Mississippi, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Shelby Dade Foote Jr.
Profession Historian, Writer, Novelist, Author
Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. 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 dipped pen disdaining the typewriter.

Awards by Shelby Foote

Check all the awards nominated and won by Shelby Foote.

1975


Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for History The Civil War: A Narrative

1964


Nominations 1964 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Science, Philosophy, and Religion (Nonfiction) The Civil War, Vol. II

1959


Nominations 1959 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction Fort Sumter to Perryville