FREDERICKSBURG TO MERIDIAN
"Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to
action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders
that I understand, at last, what happened in that battle.... Mr.
Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a
novelist''s skill in directing the reader''s attention to the men and
the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war,
without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His
organization of facts could hardly be
better."--Atlantic
關於作者:
Shelby Foote was born on November 7, 1916 in Greenville,
Mississippi, and attended school there until he entered the
University of North Carolina. During World War II he served as a
captain of field artillery but never saw combat. After World War II
he worked briefly for the Associated Press in their New York
bureau. In 1953 he moved to Memphis, where he lived for the
remainder of his life.
Foote was the author of six novels: Tournament, Follow
Me Down, Love in a Dry Season, Shiloh, Jordan
County, and September, September. He is best remembered
for his 3-volume history The Civil War: A Narrative, which
took twenty years to complete and resulted in his being a featured
expert in Ken Burns'' acclaimed Civil War documentary. Over the
course of his writing career, Foote was also awarded three
Guggenheim fellowships.
Shelby Foote died in 2005 at the age of 88.