Shelby Foote Books in Order
Shelby Foote is a celebrated American novelist and historian of the American Civil War, renowned for his magnum opus, a three-volume history of the war, <i>The Civil War: A Narrative</i>. His life and writing are deeply rooted in the Mississippi Delta, reflecting the profound transformation from the agrarian Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote's work gained widespread recognition with his appearance in Ken Burns's PBS documentary <i>The Civil War</i> in 1990, introducing a generation of Americans to the pivotal conflict he believed is "central to all our lives." As a masterful storyteller, Foote brings the complexities and nuances of the Civil War to life, solidifying his position as a leading voice in American historical literature.
Bibliography verified: January 2026
Book Series by Shelby Foote
- #1AmazonConversations with Jorge Luis Borges(1969)
- #2AmazonConversations with Czeslaw Milosz(1981)
- #3AmazonConversations with Graham Greene(1983)
- #4AmazonConversations with Eudora Welty(1985)
- #5AmazonConversations with Walker Percy(1985)
- #6AmazonConversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer(1985)
- #7AmazonConversations with William Styron(1985)
- #8AmazonConversations with Malcolm Cowley(1986)
- #9AmazonConversations with Lillian Hellman(1986)
- #10AmazonConversations with Tennessee Williams(1986)
- #11AmazonConversations with Ernest Hemingway(1986)
- #12AmazonConversations with Katherine Anne Porter(1987)
- #13AmazonTruman Capote: Conversations(1987)
- #14AmazonConversations with Flannery O'Connor(1987)
- #15AmazonConversations with Peter Taylor(1987)
- #16AmazonConversations with Arthur Miller(1987)
- #17AmazonConversations with Kurt Vonnegut(1988)
- #18AmazonConversations with Edward Albee(1988)
- #19AmazonConversations with Erskine Caldwell(1988)
- #20AmazonConversations with Norman Mailer(1988)
- #21AmazonConversations with Robert Graves(1989)
- #22AmazonConversations with Joyce Carol Oates(1989)
- #23AmazonConversations with Shelby Foote(1989)
- #24AmazonConversations with Robertson Davies(1989)
- #25AmazonConversations with James Baldwin(1989)
- #26AmazonConversations with John Gardner(1990)
- #27AmazonConversations with Richard Wilbur(1990)
- #28AmazonConversations with Tom Wolfe(1990)
- #29AmazonConversations with Raymond Carver(1990)
- #30AmazonConversations with Eugene O'Neill(1990)
- #31AmazonConversations with Reynolds Price(1991)
- #32AmazonConversations with Bernard Malamud(1991)
- #33AmazonConversations with Elizabeth Spencer(1991)
- #34AmazonConversations with Nikki Giovanni(1992)
- #35AmazonConversations With Thornton Wilder(1992)
- #36AmazonConversations with Robert Coles(1992)
- #37AmazonConversations with M. F. K. Fisher(1992)
- #38AmazonMore Conversations with Walker Percy(1993)
- #39AmazonConversations with Richard Wright(1993)
- #40AmazonConversations with Paul Bowles(1993)
- #41AmazonConversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris(1994)
- #42AmazonConversations with Amiri Baraka(1994)
- #43AmazonConversations with Toni Morrison(1994)
- #44AmazonConversations with Saul Bellow(1994)
- #45AmazonConversations with Henry Miller(1994)
- #46AmazonConversations with Ernest Gaines(1995)
- #47AmazonConversations with Ralph Ellison(1995)
- #48AmazonConversations with Chester Himes(1995)
- #49AmazonConversations with Susan Sontag(1995)
- #50AmazonConversations with Ishmael Reed(1995)
- #51AmazonConversations with Derek Walcott(1996)
- #52AmazonMore Conversations with Eudora Welty(1996)
- #53AmazonConversations with Elizabeth Bishop(1996)
- #54AmazonConversations with Pauline Kael(1996)
- #55AmazonConversations with V. S. Naipaul(1997)
- #56AmazonConversations with N. Scott Momaday(1997)
- #57AmazonConversations with Chinua Achebe(1997)
- #58AmazonConversations with Maxine Hong Kingston(1998)
- #59AmazonConversations with Denise Levertov(1998)
- #60AmazonConversations With William Faulkner(1999)
- #61AmazonConversations with E. L. Doctorow(1999)
- #62AmazonConversations With John Fowles(1999)
- #63AmazonConversations with Salman Rushdie(2000)
- #64AmazonConversations with William S. Burroughs(2000)
- #65AmazonConversations with Leslie Marmon Silko(2000)
- #66AmazonConversations with Chaim Potok(2001)
- #67AmazonConversations with Richard Ford(2001)
- #68AmazonConversations with Christopher Isherwood(2001)
- #69AmazonConversations with Mary Gordon(2002)
- #70AmazonConversations with Jim Harrison(2002)
- #71AmazonConversations with Clarence Major(2002)
- #72AmazonConversations with Margaret Walker(2002)
- #73AmazonConversations with Erica Jong(2002)
- #74AmazonElie Wiesel: Conversations(2002)
- #75AmazonJoseph Brodsky: Conversations(2003)
- #76AmazonConversations with Rita Dove(2003)
- #77AmazonConversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald(2003)
- #78AmazonConversations with Gwendolyn Brooks(2003)
- #79AmazonConversations with Stanley Kaufmann(2003)
- #80AmazonConversations with Gloria Naylor(2004)
- #81AmazonConversations with Audre Lorde(2004)
- #82AmazonConversations with Ray Bradbury(2004)
- #83AmazonConversations With John le Carré(2004)
- #84AmazonConversations with Isaac Asimov(2005)
- #85AmazonConversations with Don DeLillo(2005)
- #86AmazonConversations with Gore Vidal(2005)
- #87AmazonConversations with Robert Penn Warren(2005)
- #88AmazonConversations with Jack Kerouac(2005)
- #89AmazonConversations with Gabriel García Márquez(2005)
- #90AmazonConversations with Thomas McGuane(2006)
- #91AmazonConversations with Larry Brown(2007)
- #92AmazonConversations with Sonia Sanchez(2007)
- #93AmazonConversations with Wendell Berry(2007)
- #94AmazonConversations with Leon Forrest(2007)
- #95AmazonConversations with Kazuo Ishiguro(2008)
About Shelby Foote
Shelby Foote is a celebrated American novelist and historian of the American Civil War, renowned for his magnum opus, a three-volume history of the war, <i>The Civil War: A Narrative</i>. His life and writing are deeply rooted in the Mississippi Delta, reflecting the profound transformation from the agrarian Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote's work gained widespread recognition with his appearance in Ken Burns's PBS documentary <i>The Civil War</i> in 1990, introducing a generation of Americans to the pivotal conflict he believed is "central to all our lives." As a masterful storyteller, Foote brings the complexities and nuances of the Civil War to life, solidifying his position as a leading voice in American historical literature.
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