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Letter to C-SPAN, n.d.; 04240 Praises the Booknotes program and says the best guest was Shelby Foote. -
Letter to C-SPAN, 1994-09-14; 98270 Enjoys watching the network and the Booknotes interview with Shelby Foote. Suggests televising the locations the C-SPAN Bus has visited. -
Letter to C-SPAN, 1994-09-13; 80439 States excitement to see Shelby Foote featured on Booknotes. -
Shelby Foote reviewing a manuscript Author Shelby Foote is reviewing one of the many handwritten bound manuscripts for his three-volume series on the Civil War. Mr. Foote started working on the trilogy in 1954 and continued to research and write the volumes for the next twenty years. He has now returned to writing novels. Photo credit: Brian Lamb. -
Shelby Foot's writing table Author Shelby Foote's writing table. Mr. Foote wrote 1.5 million words on the Civil War with this dip pen. He described on C-SPAN how he has trouble today finding steel-tip replacements for the pen and often has to bargain with the few stationery stores that still sell them. On the table are a Quimper cup and saucer, a photo of musician Robert Johnson, Vermeer's "person with Pearl Earring," and Mr. Foote's dip pen. Photo credit: Brian Lamb. -
Shelby Foot in his office Shelby Foote in his office and bedroom space. -
Shelby Foote in his home Eighty-year-old writer Shelby Foote at work in his Memphis home. Photo credit: Brian Lamb. -
Shelby Foote in his home Eighty-year-old writer Shelby Foote at work in his Memphis home. Photo credit: Brian Lamb. -
Shelby Foote in his home Eighty-year-old writer Shelby Foote at work in his Memphis home. In the upper right corner is a portrait of Marcel Proust. While Brian Lamb was taking this photo, Mr. Foote told him he has read all of Proust's works nine times. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.