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"A writer first and foremost - a born, sovereign prince of the English language - James Agee was also a prodigal and unself -reserving man, who imparted his extraordinary gifts to many forms, from verse to novels, film scripts to book reviews, friendship to marriage; who at thirty-two published a 450-page prose lyric called Let Us Now Praise Famous Men which is at the same time one of the most vulnerable perversities and surest glories of American literature; and who, at forty-five, died leaving a new novel on his desk, a film script in progress, commitals as a man and a poet on every side."
Robert Phelps
Excerpt from Introduction to 1st Edition of
Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
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1952 - 'A Mother's Tale' [F,SS]
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Barson, Alfred T. A Way of Seeing: A Critical Study of James Agee. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1972.
Bergree, Lawrence. James Agee: A Life. New York: Dutton, 1984.
Doty, Mark A. Tell Me Who I Am: James Agee's Search for Selfhood. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.
Kramer, Victor A. Agee and Actuality: Artistic Vision in His Work. Troy, N.Y.: Whiston, 1991
Kramer, Victor A. James Agee. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1975
Lofaro, Michael A., ed. James Agee: Some Reconsiderations. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992
Lowe, James The Creative Process of James Agee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994
Madden, David, ed. Remembering James Agee. 2nd ed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997
Macdonald, Dwight. Against the American Grain. New York: Random House, 1962
Madden, David, ed. Remembering James Agee. 2nd ed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997
Maharidge, Dale, et al. And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South. New York: Pantheon, 1990
Seib, Kenneth. A Death in the Family: A Critical Commentary. New York: American R.D.M., 1965
Shuman, R. Baird, ed. Great American Writers: Twentieth Century New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2002
Snyder, John J. James Agee: A Study of His Film Criticism. New York: Arno Press, 1977 Spiegel, Alan James Agee and the legend of Himself: A Critical study. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998 Stott, William Documentary Expression and Thirties America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986
Ward, J.A. American Silences: The Realism of James Agee, Walker Evans, and Edward Hopper. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985
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(Click here for OEP Publication Abbreviation Codes and Meanings )
1934 - Permit Me Voyage [V]
1938 - Knoxville Summer 1915 [F]
1941 - Let us Now Praise Famous Men [NF] (Photographs by Walker Evans)
1941 - The Quiet One [F?]
1951 - The Morning Watch [F]
1957 - A Death in the Family [F]
1958 - Agee on Film: Reviews and Comments [NF]
1962 - Letters of James Agee to Father Flye [NF]
1964 - Four Early Stories [F,SS] (Collection)
1968 - The Collected Short Prose of James Agee [F,SS] (Collection)
1968 - The Collected Poems of James Agee [V] (Collection)
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Birth
November 27, 1909 Knoxville, Tennessee
Family
Father was a postal worker who died young in an automobile accident
Education
1916 Saint Andrews Seminary, an Episcopal boarding school in the Appalachians.
Exeter Academy
Harvard (graduated 1932)
Occupations
Journalist for FORTUNE MAGAZINE, New York
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1951 - The Red Badge of Courage (based on Stephen Crane's novel)
1951 - Film adaptation of The African Queen (based on C.S. Forester's novel)
1952 - Screenplay of Stephen Crane's The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
1953 - Noa Noa
1953 - White Mane
1955 - Green Magic
1955 - The Night of the Hunter
1960 - Agee on Film: Five Film Scripts
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1952 - Oscar for best screenplay adaptation of The African Queen (with co-writer John Huston).
1957 - Posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his unfinished novel A Death in the Family.
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Author
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Date of birth: November 27, 1909
Place of birth: Knoxville, Tennessee
Date of death: May 16, 1955
Place of death: Taxicab, New York
Genre: American Novelists, Poet and Screenwriter.
Father's name: Hugh James Agee
Mother's name: Laura Tyler Agee
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