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James Agee

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
James Agee , 1909-55, American writer, b. Knoxville, Tenn., grad. Harvard, 1932. He soon joined the literary and journalistic life of New York City, becoming (1932) a writer for Fortune magazine, a book reviewer and movie critic for Time (1939-48), and a film critic for The Nation (1942-48). During the 1950s he was a film scriptwriter, e.g., The African Queen (with John Huston , 1951) and The Night of the Hunter (1955), and also wrote for television. Agee's first major book is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), a prose commentary on the life of tenant farmers in the... Read more
James Agee
James Agee The writer James Agee (1909-1955) was a poet, journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. He...Great Depression. Born November 27, 1909, in Knoxville, Tennessee, James Agee was the son of Hugh James and Laura (Tyler) Agee. His father worked... Read more
Agee, James
Agee, James (1909–55), Tennessee‐born...journals were posthumously collected as Agee on Film (1958). Agee on Film: II (1960) contains five of his...by Tad Mosel and won a Pulitzer Prize. Agee's letters to his old schoolteacher and... Read more

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