James Agee
James Rufus Agee was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for Time Magazine, 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. Agee is also known as a co-writer of the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and as the screenwriter of the film classics The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter.
Books by James Agee
2 books available
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by James Agee
4.0(3,338)
Through stark prose and haunting photographs, Agee and Evans show the desperate dignity of Depression-era sharecroppers, turning a journalistic assignment into an enduring, empathetic American epic.
A Death in the Family
by James Agee
3.9(14,044)
In 1915 Knoxville, a sudden car accident shatters the Follet family's domestic world, forcing them to confront the sorrow of a husband and father's untimely death.