James Agee (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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James Agee’s writing is influenced by two boyhood experiences in Tennessee: the death of his father, killed in an automobile accident in 1916 (and fictionalized in A Death in the Family), and the Anglican religious training he received at St. Andrew’s, a boarding school run by a monastic order of the Episcopal church (explored in The Morning Watch). At St. Andrew’s Agee met Father James Harold Flye, with whom he traveled to France and England in 1925. Agee and Flye were lifelong friends and correspondents.
As a young man Agee...
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