Horton Foote

Laurin Porter (University of Texas at Arlington)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 14 Mar 1916
Activity 1940-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Film/TV Script-writer/ Screenwriter
Playwright / Dramatist

Other

Film Actor

Resources

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(Albert) Horton Foote, a fifth generation Texan, was born in Wharton, Texas in 1916, a descendent of two of the oldest and best-known families in the state. The parents of his maternal great-grandmother, Harriet Gautier Brooks, were among the first settlers of the Texas Gulf Coast and among the region's wealthiest families. His paternal great-great grandfather, for whom he is named, Albert Clinton Horton, fought in the Battles of Goliad and San Jacinto and later became Texas' first elected Lieutenant Governor. Unfortunately, both the Brooks and the Hortons were financially devastated by the Civil War. The playwright himself had an idyllic childhood as the first-born son of Albert Horton Foote, Sr. and Harriet Gautier Brooks and the grandson of Tom Brooks, who had risen from the poverty of…

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Citation: Porter, Laurin. "Horton Foote". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 June 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5986, accessed 26 November 2024.]