James Agee
Born November 27, 1909
Knoxville, Tennessee
Died May 16, 1955
New York, New York
Poet, novelist, movie critic,
movie scriptwriter
James Agee. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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Biography EssayJames Rufus Agee, novelist, poet, journalist, film critic, and screenwriter, is best known for a documentary study of three Alabama tenant-farming families in the midst of the Depressio...
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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 hu...
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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-f...
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James Agee was an eclectic writer, shifting easily among fiction, documentary prose, movie criticism, and screenwriting. His talents ultimately won him a Pulitzer prize in 1958 for A Death in the Fami...
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James Rufus Agee, novelist, poet, journalist, film critic, and screenwriter, is best known for a documentary study of three Alabama tenant-farming families in the midst of the Depression, Let Us Now P...
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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,...
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"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...
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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...
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Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City, based on Mr. Miller's series of graphic novels, makes it look like we're at the end of Western civilization as we know it. One has only to itemize its ...
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