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James Agee

James Rufus Agee was an American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.

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Born 27 November 1909
Died 16 May 1955

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  • Cover of: A death in the family.

    Cover of edition deathfamily00agee First published in 1957 — 28 editions
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  • Cover of: Let us now praise famous men

    Cover of edition letusnowpraisefa00ageerich Cover of edition letusnowpraisefa00agee_1 Cover of edition letusnowpraisefa00agee Cover of edition letusnowpraisefa0000agee First published in 1941 — 24 editions
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  • Cover of: Agee on film: criticism and comment on the movies

    Cover of edition ageeonfilm0002agee Cover of edition ageeonfilm0000agee First published in 1958 — 21 editions
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  • Cover of: Fifty best American short stories: 1915-1965

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  • Cover of: The morning watch

    First published in 1950 — 12 editions
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  • Cover of: Letters of James Agee to Father Flye

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  • Cover of: The collected short prose of James Agee

    First published in 1968 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Permit me voyage

    Cover of edition permitmevoyage0000agee First published in 1934 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: The collected poems of James Agee.

    Cover of edition collectedpoemsof00agee_0 First published in 1968 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: James Agee: Selected Journalism

    First published in 1971 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: collected poems.: Edited and with an introd. by Robert Fitzgerald.

    First published in 1968 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Agee on film

    First published in 1958 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

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  • Cover of: The morning watch

    First published in 1950 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Film writing and selected journalism

    First published in 2005 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Knoxville, summer 1915

    First published in 1970 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: James Agee Rediscovered: The Journals for 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men' and Other New Manuscripts

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  • Cover of: Agee: Selected Literary Documents

    First published in 1996 — 2 editions
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    First published in 1957 — 2 editions
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Born 27 November 1909
Died 16 May 1955

Subjects

Fiction, Fathers and sons, Traffic accident victims, Boys, Agee, james, 1909-1955, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fathers and sons, fiction, History, Motion pictures, Social life and customs, Tennessee, fiction, Alabama, social conditions, American Authors, Death, American poetry, Biography, Books, Description and travel, Literature, Manuscripts, Motion picture plays, Motion pictures, history, Notebooks, sketchbooks, Pictorial works, Religion

Places

Knoxville (Tenn.), Tennessee, United States, Alabama, New York, New York (State), Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), EE.UU Alabama, Knoxville, New York (N.Y.), Sewanee, Southern States

People

James Agee (1909-1955), Christ, Christians, God, James Harold Flye, Jesus Christ, Jews, Satan, Walker Evans (1903-1975), the Devil

Time

20th century, 1923

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
February 10, 2010 Edited by Winnie Updated author information from Wikipedia
September 11, 2008 Edited by RenameBot fix author name
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import