Noted American writer and critic
James Rufus Agee collaborated with photographer
Walker Evans on
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
(1941), a bleak depiction of rural poverty and posthumously published his novel
A Death in the Family
(1957).
This author, journalist, poet, screenwriter in the 1940s most influenced films in the United States. His autobiographical work won a Pulitzer Prize.
LifeBorn at Highland Avenue and 15th Street (renamed James Agee Street in 1999) to Hugh James Agee and Lau…
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