![]() ![]() In 1935, Foote applied to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, hoping to join with the older Percy boys, but was denied admission because of an unfavorable recommendation from his high school principal. Foote began a lifelong fraternal and literary relationship with Walker each had great influence the other's writing.įoote edited The Pica, the student newspaper of Greenville High School, and frequently used the paper to lampoon the school's principal. When Foote was 15 years old, Walker Percy and his brothers LeRoy and Phinize Percy moved to Greenville to live with their uncle - attorney, poet, and novelist William Alexander Percy - after the death of their parents. Foote was an only child, and his mother never remarried. Foote's father died in Mobile when Foote was five years old he and his mother moved back to Greenville. ![]() As his father advanced through the executive ranks of Armour and Company, the family lived in Greenville, Jackson, Vicksburg, Pensacola, Florida, and Mobile, Alabama. Foote was raised in his father's and maternal grandmother's Episcopal religion. His maternal grandfather was a Jewish immigrant from Vienna. Foote's paternal grandfather, a planter, had gambled away most of his fortune and assets. 6.2.2 Titles excerpted from the The Civil War: A Narrativeįoote was born in Greenville, Mississippi, the son of Shelby Dade Foote and his wife Lillian Rosenstock. ![]()
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