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| November 27, 1909 |
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| James Agee (1909 - 1955) |
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James Agee's Full, Short Life
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| by Steve King |
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On this day in 1909 James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. Agee was a poet (Permit Me Voyage), an influential film critic (collected as Agee on Film), a social documentarist (Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, based on his six weeks with Alabama sharecroppers), and a screenwriter (The African Queen), but he is best remembered for his autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family. The car crash which killed his father was probably caused by alcohol, but the family avoided saying so; this left young Rufus (James) alone with his unanswered questions and these final impressions ... FULL STORY »
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