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Horton Foote (1916-2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter who won Academy Awards for To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies. He also wrote for television, musicals, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Young Man From Atlanta.
Horton Foote was a Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist and Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for his adaptations of To Kill a Mockingbird, The Trip to Bountiful and Tender Mercies. He created the fictional town of Harrison, Texas, where he set many of his plays, and wrote about his family and childhood memories.
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Mar 4, 2009 · Horton Foote was an American playwright and screenwriter who adapted To Kill a Mockingbird and won the Pulitzer Prize for The Young Man from Atlanta. Learn about his life, career, and notable works in this article from Britannica.
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Mar 5, 2009 · Horton Foote, who chronicled a wistful American odyssey through the 20th century in plays and films mostly set in a small town in Texas and who left a literary legacy as one of the country’s...
Horton Foote was a playwright and screenwriter who won Oscars, Pulitzer and National Medal of Arts for his works. He drew on his Texas roots to create characters and stories that reflected the universal struggles of human nature.
Mar 5, 2009 · Horton Foote, whose plays and scripts about the longing and struggles of small-town life won him two Academy Awards, an Emmy and a Pulitzer Prize, has died at the age of 92.
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Mar 4, 2009 · Horton Foote, who chronicled America’s wistful odyssey through the 20th century in plays and films mostly set in a small town in Texas, died in Hartford, Connecticut on Wednesday. He was 92.
