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James Agee's Full, Short Life
On this day in 1909 James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. In his forty-five years he was film critic, social documentarist, poet and screenwriter (The African Queen), but he is best known for his autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family -- and for the passionate, full-out living that killed him. |
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A Death in the Family
autobiography |
Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies
criticism |
Agee: Selected Literary Documents
by James Agee, Victor A. Kramer (Editor)
anthology, poetry, essays, ... |
James Agee: Selected Journalism
by Paul Ashdown (Editor), James Agee
essays |
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
non-fiction |
Permit Me Voyage
poetry |
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I Hear Poets Singing: James Agee
This short biography from PBS Online chronicles Agee's life as a journalist, poet, novelist and social critic. The article touches upon the influence of friend and mentor, Father Flye, and Agee's collaborations with Walker Evans on articles for Fortune Magazine, and the now classic work on social injustice in America, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
"The loss of his father marked James Agee both short term and long term. ... Thirty years later it would form the kernel of the novel which is the cornerstone of his fame (A Death in the Family), but more immediately it resulted in what the author would later see as an expulsion from a childhood Eden." |  | Literary Encyclopedia
Offers a well-researched biography and analysis of A Death in the Family and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Future essays on Permit Me Voyage, The Morning Watch, and Agee on Film are planned. Highly recommended.
"In his fiction, poetry, and journalistic writing, Agee's major interests centered on the insecurity of childhood, the psychological conflicts of family life, and the vulnerability of all human beings within society. As a result of his childhood crises, especially the sudden death of his father on May 18, 1916, Agee grew up to be a person overwhelmed by a sense of guilt and personal failure in relation to his lost father. At the same time, both in his writing and his actual life, Agee repeatedly attempted to reconstruct a nostalgic image of an ideal family life." | | Maureen E. Mulvihill & June Harrison on James Agee's Brooklyn
A companion TinL article on James Agee's Brooklyn Is, his prose-poem on life there in the 1930s. | |
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