Shelby Foote was born on November 17, 1916 in Greenville, Mississippi, USA. He was a writer, known for Entführt - Sieben Tage Angst (1992), Die Baseball-Story (1994) and Rebel Forrest: The Nathan Bedford Forrest Story (2002). He was married to Gwyn Rainer, Peggy DeSommes and Tess Lavery. He died on June 27, 2005 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
