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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, his almost maddeningly obscure account of life among Depression-era Alabama sharecroppers, was a commercial flop when it was released in 1941, although the book now stands as a landmark piece of social documentary.
May 18, 2018 · Agee, James (1909–55) US writer. A novelist, poet, influential film critic and screenwriter for films such as The African Queen (1951, co-scripted with John Huston) and The Night of the Hunter (1955). He is perhaps best known for his study of rural poverty, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941).
Nov 23, 2018 · The Many Sides of James Agee. Features —. Nov 23, 2018. The work of James Agee (1909–1955) remains one of the touchstones of American movie criticism. An extraordinarily versatile writer, he won acclaim as a novelist, a poet, and a screenwriter (his scripts for The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter were career highlights), but ...
James Agee, (born Nov. 27, 1909, Knoxville, Tenn., U.S.—died May 16, 1955, New York, N.Y.), U.S. poet and novelist. Agee attended Harvard University. In the 1930s and ’40s, film reviews for Time and The Nation made him a pioneer in serious film criticism.
James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic. In the 1940s he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S.
James Rufus Agee was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for Time, he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize.
Books. James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, and…. LOA N°159. A champion of America’s great writers and timeless works, Library of America guides readers in finding and exploring the exceptional writing that reflects the nation’s history and culture.
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