What is Horton Foote?
'''Albert Horton Foote, Jr.''' (March 14, 1916 &ndash; March 4, 2009<ref>[http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/horton_foote/index.html ''The New York Times'' March 4, 2009]</ref>) was an [[Americans|American]] playwright and screenwriter. He was best known for his screenplays for the 1962 movei ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird (movie)|To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' and the 1983 movie ''[[Tender Mercies]]''. He was born in [[Wharton, Texas|Wharton]], [[Texas]]. He won two [[Academy Awards]] (1962, 1983), a [[Pulitzer Prize]] (1995) and an [[Emmy Award]] (1997). Foote died of [[natural causes]] in [[Hartford, Connecticut]] at the age of 92. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{IBDB name|6348}} * {{IMDb name|285210}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Foote, Horton}} [[Category:Academy Award winning writers]] [[Category:American Emmy Award winners]] [[Category:Pulitzer Prize winners]] [[Category:1916 births]] [[Category:2009 deaths]] [[Category:American playwrights]] [[Category:Screenwriters from Texas]] {{US-bio-stub}}