Description
For more than five decades, Horton Foote, the Chekhov of the small town, has chronicled the changes in American life -- both intimate and universal. His adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and his original screenplay Tender Mercies earned him Academy Awards. He received an Indie Award for Best Writer for The Trip to Bountiful and a Pulitzer Prize for The Young Man from Atlanta.
In his plays and films, Foote has returned over and over again to Wharton, Texas, where he was born and where he lives, once again, in the house in which he grew up. Now for the first time, in Farewell, Foote turns to prose to tell his own story and the stories of the real people who have inspired his characters. His memoir is both a celebration of the immense importance of community and evidence that even a strong community cannot save a lost soul. Farewell is as deeply moving as the best of Foote's writing for film and theater, and a gorgeous testimony to his own faith in the human spirit
Author: Horton Foote
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 06/05/2000
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.55w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9780684865706
ISBN10: 068486570X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
In his plays and films, Foote has returned over and over again to Wharton, Texas, where he was born and where he lives, once again, in the house in which he grew up. Now for the first time, in Farewell, Foote turns to prose to tell his own story and the stories of the real people who have inspired his characters. His memoir is both a celebration of the immense importance of community and evidence that even a strong community cannot save a lost soul. Farewell is as deeply moving as the best of Foote's writing for film and theater, and a gorgeous testimony to his own faith in the human spirit
Author: Horton Foote
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 06/05/2000
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.55w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9780684865706
ISBN10: 068486570X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
About the Author
Horton Foote has written and adapted dozens of plays and screenplays, including The Trip to Bountiful, The Young Man from Atlanta, Tender Mercies, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Foote has won Academy and Writers Guild awards, as well as the Pulitzer Prize. In 1996 he was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame, and in 1998, to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also received the Academy's Gold Medal for Drama for his life's work