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Bookmark or Share- James Agee - WikipediaJames 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.
- James Agee (Author of A Death in the Family) - GoodreadsNoted American writer and critic James Rufus Agee collaborated with photographer Walker Evans on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), a bleak depiction of rural poverty and posthumously published his novel A Death in the Family (1957).
- James Agee | Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author & Poet | BritannicaJames Agee was an American poet, novelist, and writer for and about motion pictures. One of the most influential American film critics in the 1930s and ’40s, he applied rigorous intellectual and aesthetic standards to his reviews, which appeared anonymously in Time and signed in The Nation.
- Let Us Now Praise James Agee | National Endowment for the HumanitiesLet Us Now Praise James Agee. The journalist who pioneered serious film criticism showed a cinematic touch in all of his writing.
- James Agee | The Poetry FoundationPoet, novelist, and activist James Rufus Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was six years old when his father, a postal worker, died in a car accident. After his father’s death, Agee attended boarding schools before earning an AB at Harvard University, where he edited the literary magazine, The Harvard Advocate .
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