Shelby Foote Non-Fiction books in order

Shelby Foote's non-fiction includes Stars in Their Courses, The Beleaguered City, and his collected correspondence with Walker Percy.
Series · Non-Fiction · History · Letters

Reading order

# Title Published Author Buy on Amazon
1 Stars in Their Courses 1994 Shelby Foote Buy
2 The Beleaguered City 1995 Shelby Foote Buy
3 The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy 1996 Shelby Foote Buy

Shelby Foote’s non-fiction outside his major Civil War work includes Stars in Their Courses (1994), which focuses on the Gettysburg campaign, and The Beleaguered City (1995), about the siege of Vicksburg. Both draw on material from his larger narrative history and present it in a more focused format.

The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy (1996) collects decades of letters between two of the South’s most important twentieth-century writers. The letters reveal both men’s literary ambitions, personal struggles, and deep friendship, making the collection valuable as literary history and as a portrait of the postwar Southern intellectual world.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books are in the Shelby Foote Non-Fiction series?

There are three books in the Shelby Foote Non-Fiction series, published between 1994 and 1996.

What is the first book in the Shelby Foote Non-Fiction series?

The first book in the Shelby Foote Non-Fiction series is Stars in Their Courses, published in 1994.

Who was Walker Percy to Shelby Foote?

Walker Percy was a fellow Southern writer and Foote’s closest friend from adolescence until Percy’s death in 1990. Their collected correspondence, published in 1996, covers decades of letters discussing literature, philosophy, the South, and their respective writing careers.

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