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James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, 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.
Agee was born at 15th and Highland Streets in Knoxville, Tennessee. When Agee was six, his father died in an automobile accident, and from the age of seven he was sent to boarding schools, where he felt isolated from and abandoned by his mother. He attended St. Andrews-Sewanee School (then an Episcopal monastery run by the monks), and Phillips Exeter Academy, (class of 1928), where he edited the Monthly and was president of The Lantern Club (though barely passing many of his courses), before going on to Harvard University (class of 1932) where he was president of the Harvard Advocate and delivered the class ode at commencement.
After graduation, he wrote for Fortune and Time magazines. (He is better known, however, for his later film criticism in The Nation.) He married Via Saunders on January 28, 1933; they divorced in 1938 and that same year he married Alma Mailman. In 1934, he published his first volume of poetry, Permit Me Voyage, with a foreword by Archibald MacLeish.
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jsnell (Jason Snell) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:02:23 -0000
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Final lecture in the James Agee Centennial Festival Sunday, November 22, 2 p.m. at Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave.
AboutKnoxville (Knoxville) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:11:24 -0000
Final lecture in the James Agee Centennial Festival Sunday, November 22, 2 p.m. at Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave.
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children. -James Agee #quote
thesilverbar (Silver) Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:11:21 -0000
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children. -James Agee #quote
In the street --- Diese Dokumentation von James Agee, Helen Levitt und Janice Loeb zeigt New York im Jahre 1948.. http://bit.ly/1IwxbA
alexf10 (alexf10) Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:15:31 -0000
In the street --- Diese Dokumentation von James Agee, Helen Levitt und Janice Loeb zeigt New York im Jahre 1948.. http://bit.ly/1IwxbA
RSmo #6 -- James Agee p. 120 from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men -- "Gudger and Ricketts, during this year, were exceedingly lucky" #nanowrimo
bonnaire (Valentine Bonnaire) Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:11:21 -0000
RSmo #6 -- James Agee p. 120 from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men -- "Gudger and Ricketts, during this year, were exceedingly lucky" #nanowrimo
*removing the book, titled "A Death in the Family" by James Agee, flip through it quickly, grins, speaking to myself* Perfect.
V_Sulpicia (Sulpicia) Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:17:07 -0000
*removing the book, titled "A Death in the Family" by James Agee, flip through it quickly, grins, speaking to myself* Perfect.
I Hear America Singing: Poet/Writer James Agee - Short biography.
PAL Research and Reference Guide: James Agee (1909-1955) - Bibliographic lists of primary works by Agee and books and articles about him and his works.
The Great Experiment - Article describes how, in 1933, Fortune magazine sent the tall young poet James Agee to Knoxville, Tennessee, to cover the story of the Tennessee Valley Authority project.
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