"A Certain Kind of Writer": An Interview with Horton Foote

On October 24th of the same year the second meeting was held as part of a two-day program on Foote's work sponsored jointly by Carson-Newman College (Jefferson City, Tennessee) and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Barr, a doctoral candidate in the English Department at UTK, is writing his dissertation on the relationship between Foote's writing and the evolution of mass media in the United States. Wood is preparing a book-length study of Foote's work and undertook this interview as part of his 1985 summer project as a James Still Fellow in the Appalachian College Program at the University of Kentucky. The Cantos have been very influential, Eliot, Marianne Moore, Yeats (always - the autobiography I spent a lot of time reworking, rereading), William Carlos Williams. [...] when you published Harrison, Texas, you said that the characters seemed to have two main missions in life: to accept life and face death.