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Let us now praise famous men A death in the family, & shorter fiction

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Main Author:	Agee, James, 1909-1955
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Library of America, c2005.
Series:	Library of America ; 159
Subjects:	United States > Social life and customs > Fiction. Agee, James, > 1909-1955 > Travel > Alabama. Traffic accident victims > Fiction. Knoxville (Tenn.) > Fiction. Fathers and sons > Fiction. Alabama > Rural conditions. Farm tenancy > Alabama. Boys > Fiction.
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Physical Description:	818 p., [61] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 811-818).
ISBN:	1931082812 (alk. paper)
Author Notes:	Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 27, 1909 and educated at Harvard, James Agee crowded versatile literary activity into his short and troubled life. In addition to two novels, he wrote short stories, essays, poetry, and screenplays; he worked professionally as a journalist and film critic. Appropriately, he is best remembered for a work that combines several genres and literary approaches. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a documentary report on sharecropper life accompanied by vividly realistic photographs by Walker Evans, has been called "a great Moby Dick of a book" (New York Times Book Review). It may be considered an important precursor of the so-called nonfiction novel that was to gain prominence during the 1960s. The Morning Watch (1954), a novel in the tradition of portraits of artists-to-be, and A Death in the Family, a moving account of domestic life based on the loss of Agee's father belong to more conventional types of fiction. The 1960 dramatization of All the Way Home by Tad Mosel, won a Pulitizer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award; it was also cited by Life as the "Best American Play of the Season." Agee's work for the screen included his scripts for The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter. Agee on Film (1958-60) consists of a gathering of reviews and comments as well as five scripts. Prior to Laurence Bergreen's well-received 1984 biography of Agee, the principal source of information about his life was Letters of James Agee to Father Flye, a collection of seventy letters written by Agee to his instructor at St. Andrew's School and trusted friend throughout his life. The letters show Agee most often in a reflective, self-condemning mood. The final letters, written from the hospital where he was battling daily heart attacks, are touching, as are his sad reflections on the work he yet wanted to do. Agee died in New York of a heart attack on May 16, 1955. He was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1957 for A Death in the Family. (Bowker Author Biography)