Shelby Foote's 1951 Love In a Dry Season was one of the author's favorites among his own works. It recounts the ill-fated courtship of a wealthy spinster by an opportunistic Northerner in a small Mississippi cotton town in the 1930s. Return to Previous Page Back to: Shelby Foote Profile Shelby Foote Biography Shelby Foote Interview Shelby Foote Photo Gallery