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James Agee

James Rufus Agee ( AY-jee; November 27, 1909 - May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, 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 1958 Pulitzer Prize.

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Birthdate
November 27, 1909
Birthplace
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee
Date of Death
May 16, 1955
Place of Death
New York City
New York City
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A death in the family
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The collected short prose of James Agee
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Permit me voyage
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Agee on film
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The Morning Watch
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Let us now praise famous men
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The night of the hunter
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Complete journalism
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Educated at
Harvard University
Harvard University
Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy
St. Andrew's-Sewanee School
St. Andrew's-Sewanee School
Eliot House (Harvard College)
Eliot House (Harvard College)
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Knoxville High School (Tennessee)
Knoxville High School (Tennessee)
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Film director
Film director
Poet
Poet
Novelist
Novelist
Journalist
Journalist
Writer
Writer
Critic
Critic
Screenwriter
Screenwriter
Author
Author
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00000001213089180
Open Library ID
OL29784A0
VIAF
467561900

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Birth Name
James Rufus Agee
Citizenship
United States
United States
Notable Work
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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A Death in the Family
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Q352963

Agee's mother married St. Andrew's bursar Father Erskine Wright in 1924, and the two moved to Rockland, Maine.[5] Agee went to Knoxville High School for the 1924–1925 school year, then traveled with Father Flye to Europe in the summer, when Agee was sixteen. On their return, Agee transferred to a boarding school in New Hampshire, entering the class of 1928 at Phillips Exeter Academy. Soon after, he began a correspondence with Dwight Macdonald.

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