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James Agee

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James Agee

1909-1955 
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Overview

  • Born 1909 in Knoxville, Tennesse, and graduated from Harvard
  • Worked at Fortune, Time, and the Nation
  • Wrote Hollywood screenplays, including African Queen
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

  • 1941: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a prose commentary on the life of tenant farmers in the South in the 1930s
  • Accompanied by photographs by Walker Evans
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Agee's Other Works

  • 1954: The Morning Watch, a semi-autobiographical novella
  • 1957: A Death in the Family recounts in the tragic impact of a man’s death on his wife and family.

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