The writer James Agee (1909-1955) was a poet, journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. He also was the author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, an eloquent and anguished testimony about the essential human dignity of impoverished sharecroppers during the 1...

James Agee 's literary work -- poetry, journalism, criticism, screenplays -- was not that of just a fiction writer. According to Father James Harold Flye, Agee's mentor, teacher, and surrogate father, Agee frequently talked of extending his unfinished au...

Poet, novelist, journalist, film critic, screenwriter, avid letter writer, and social activist: all these hats were worn by James Agee in his short but illustrious literary career. Dead at age forty-five from heart problems exacerbated by heavy drinking...

A Death in the Family by James Agee Poet, journalist, film critic, screenwriter, and novelist, James Agee died in 1955 at the age of only forty-nine. He had almost completed his autobiographical novel A Death in the Family after working on it for nearly...

A Death in the Family is an autobiographical novel by author James Agee, set in LaFollette, Tennessee. He began writing it in 1948, but it was not quite complete when he died in 1955. It was edited and released posthumously in 1957 by editor David...

Handling the loss of an employee is a delicate matter. As in every aspect of our lives, dealing with death is an unfortunate reality of the workplace. The death of an employee, regardless of the circumstances, is a severe blow to any organization....

There are several mistakes adults typically make with children who are grieving. Probably the most serious is to assume that children aren't as sad as we are because they aren't acting as sad. An 8-year-old may go bike riding moments after he was...

"A Death in the Family" won the Pulitzer Prize a half century ago and became an American literary classic, but it was not the book James Agee wrote."It wasn't what Agee intended. At least, it isn't the manuscript that he left when he died," University...

Introduce Yourself Julie Paolucci, a mom of five in Newington, Connecticut, sends a note of introduction to each of her children’s teachers. “I include relevant family information and anything specific the teacher needs to know about my child,” says Julie. Keep in Touch “I really...