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...

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 Praise Famous Men, and an unfinished novel, A Death...

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 Family and an Academy award nomination in 1951 for The...

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 Praise Famous Men, and an unfinished novel, A Death...

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...