Agee, James
Agee, James( 1909–55),Tennessee-born author, after graduation from Harvard (1932) began his literary career with Permit Me Voyage (1934), a work issued in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He served on the staffs of Fortune and Time, and for the former wrote a study of Alabama sharecroppers during the Depression, which when found inappropriate for Fortune was issued with photographs by Walker Evans as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). The Morning Watch (1951), a novella sensitively depicting a day in the life of a 12-year-old boy in a Tennessee school, was a prelude to his major work of fiction, A Death in the Family (1957), a partly autobiographical and poetic story of a happy, secure Tennessee family whose good life is shattered by the father's death in an auto accident. His motion picture reviews for The Nation, Time, and other journals were posthumously collected as Agee on Film...
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