James Agee
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James Rufus Agee was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for Time, he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States. His aut
Agee in 1937
James Agee Park in the Fort Sanders neighborhood of Knoxville, Tennessee. Knoxville was Agee's childhood home and the setting for his novel A Death in the Family.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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Let us now Praise Famous Men is a book with text by American writer James Agee and photographs by American photographer Walker Evans, first published in 1941 in the United States. The work documents t
James Agee
…autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Agee is also known as a co-writer of the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and as the screenwriter of the film classics The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter. Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Hugh James Agee…
First edition (publ. Houghton Mifflin)
Walker Evans photograph of three sharecroppers, Frank Tengle, Bud Fields, and Floyd Burroughs, Alabama, summer 1936