Civil War Bookshelf
American Civil War historiography and publishing blogged daily by Dimitri Rotov.
4/04/2006
Shelby Foote, novelist
My wife finished
Love in a Dry Season
and asked for
Follow Me Down
.
"Why did he stop writing novels?" she asked.
Having thought about this, I said, "He was attracted by our lower standards in history writing and took an easier path."
"What do you mean," she asked.
"Um, it's somewhere in the blog..."
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