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James Rufus Agee (/ ˈ eɪ dʒ iː / AY-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for Time , he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States.
A Death in the Family is an autobiographical novel by James Agee. It was based on events which occurred to Agee in 1915, when his father went out of town to see his own father, who had suffered a heart attack. During the return trip, Agee's father was killed in a car crash.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a book with text by American writer James Agee and photographs by American photographer Walker Evans, first published in 1941 in the United States. The work documents the lives of impoverished tenant farmers during the Great Depression.
The Morning Watch is a short autobiographical novel which author James Agee began writing in 1947. [1] Completing the text in 1950, Agee wrote to John Huston that the protagonist was a "12-year-old boy (roughly myself) at edge of puberty, peak of certain kinds of hypersensitive introversion, isolation, and a certain priggishness."
Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 is a lush, richly textured work. Setting music to excerpts from "Knoxville: Summer of 1915", a 1938 prose poem by James Agee that later became a preamble to his posthumously published, Pulitzer Prize-winning book, A Death in the Family (1957), Barber paints an idyllic, nostalgic picture of Agee's native Knoxville, Tennessee.
Agee is a 1980 American documentary film [1] about the writer and film critic James Agee [2] directed and produced by Ross Spears. [3] It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature .
Agee also reveals that he actually did a Stallone impression while playing the on-set King Shark in The Suicide Squad. Peacemaker’s Steve Agee on Dancing For James Gunn and Hating His Beard Liz ...
The musical is based on the novel A Death in the Family written by James Agee, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction upon its release in 1957. [1] [2] The title comes from the setting of the story in Knoxville, Tennessee, where original author Agee was from. The show is set in 1915.