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James Rufus Agee (/ ˈ eɪ dʒ iː / AY-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) 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.
May 12, 2024 · James Agee (born November 27, 1909, Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.—died May 16, 1955, New York, New York) was an American poet, novelist, and writer for and about motion pictures. One of the most influential American film critics in the 1930s and ’40s, he applied rigorous intellectual and aesthetic standards to his reviews, which appeared ...
James Agee. 1909–1955. Poet, novelist, and activist James Rufus Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was six years old when his father, a postal worker, died in a car accident.
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.
Nov 23, 2018 · But Agee was the first professional critic who consistently compared directors to poets, painters, composers, and novelists—Griffith to Walt Whitman, Dreyer to Rembrandt and Beethoven, and, in a mixed review of The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, Preston Sturges to Dickens and Céline.
May 18, 2018 · 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 1930s.
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.
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