James Agee (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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James Agee is best known for his posthumous novel A Death in the Family (1957) and his collection of essays Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). He wrote the screenplays for The Red Badge of Courage (1951), The African Queen (1952), The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (1952), and several other films.
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James Agee’s greatest literary achievement is his posthumous novel A Death in the Family, of which 194 handwritten pages, along with 114 pages of working notes, were completed before his death...
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