Mr Foote was a generous, genteel American dramatist who had a profound and long-lived human insights were expressed with uncommon sympathy for the fears of decent, small-town Americans, died Wednesday at age 92. According to several reports, Foote was in his temporary apartment in Hartford, Conn., working on a future production of one of his plays.
Horton Foote has passed away. He was the man who chronicled America’s wistful odyssey through the 20th century in many plays and films in a small town in Texas and left a literary legacy as one of the country’s foremost storytellers, died in Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday. He was 92years old said his daughter Hallie Foote.
"In a body of work" was the play for which he won the Pulitzer Prize and two Oscars, Mr. Foote was well known as the writer’s writer, and an author who would never neglect his vision or altered his simple, homespun style even when Broadway and Hollywood temporarily turned their backs on him.
In screenplays for such movies as “Tender Mercies,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Trip to Bountiful,” and in plays like “The Young Man From Atlanta” and his nine-play cycle “Orphans’ Home,” Mr. Foote depicted the way ordinary people shoulder the ordinary burdens of life, finding drama in the resilience by which they carry on in the face of change, economic hardship, disappointment, loss and death. His work earned him a Pulitzer Prize and two Academy Awards.
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