Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
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)