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...

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...

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...

Born November 27, 1909 Knoxville, Tennessee Died May 16, 1955 New York, New York Poet, novelist, movie critic, movie scriptwriter James...

James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic. In the 1940s he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the...

JAMES THURBER'S "Something to Say," a story from The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze, is a wicked spoof of that quintessentially American literary Genre, the memoir of genius unrealized. Elliot Vereker, the "genius" of Thurber's tale, is an alcoholic writer whose knack...

Film critic James Agee started reviewing films for The Nation in 1942. For six years, Agree reviewed hundreds of movies in his column for the New York City newspaper. Agee's reviews are featured in the book 'Agee on Film,' which is considered as a...

"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...

Can writing confer immortality? Let’s hope for at least temporary immortality, because the season’s books are crowded with the dead. David Halberstam, Molly Ivins and Arthur Schlesinger Jr., all three of whom died earlier this year, have books coming out this fall: Halberstam’s long-awaited narrative...