Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Shelby Foote
Born: November 17, 1916
Died: June 27, 2005 (aged 88)
Bio: 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.
Known for:
- The Civil War: A Narrative (1986)
- Love in a dry season (1951)
- Stars in their courses (1994)
- September, September (1977)
- Jordan County (1954)