Horton Foote Editor

On December 20, 2000, President Bill Clinton conferred the National Medal of Arts on Texas dramatist Horton Foote and noted that Foote's six-decade-long, award-winning career established him as the nation's most prolific writer for stage, film, and television. Foote's many awards include two Academy Awards, an Emmy, a Burkey Award and the Screen Laurel Award from the Writers Guild of America, the Lucille Lortel Award, and his induction into both the Theatre Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Without question, Foote has enriched American literature with his unique writing style and his truthful examinations of the human condition. Besides To Kill A Mockingbird and The Trip to Bountiful, Foote has written a score of notable plays, teleplays, and films. An accomplished director and actor, Marion Castleberry is an associate professor and director of Graduate Theatre Studies at Baylor University. He is the author of many academic and professional articles on Foote.