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Horton Foote, the playwright and sreenwriter who movingly portrayed the plight of the common people and their
broken dreams in ‘Tender Mercies’, ‘The Trip to Bountiful’ and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, has died at the age of
92. Foote died in his sleep as he was preparing work on a collection of nine plays entitled ‘The Orphans’ Home Cycle’.
As a teenager, Foote left his native Wharton, Texas and wanted to become an actor. He realized his talent as a
storyteller and embarked on a writing career that spanned for more than half a century and that saw him earn to
Academy Awards and a 1995 Pulitzer Prize for ‘The Young Man From Atlanta.’ He touched the lives of many through his writings.
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