James Agee
October 2nd, 2003
James Agee (190955)was born in Knoxville, Tenn. in 1909, graduated from Harvard in 1932. He started out as a writer for "Fortune magazine", and then a movie critic for "Time" and "The Nation", and also became a respected screenwriter. The writer unfortunately enjoyed little success in his lifetime, but after death won accolades. His best-known published work is the posthumously published novel "A Death in the Family" (1957; Pulitzer Prize), which recounts in poetic prose the tragic impact of a man's death on his wife and family. Agee wrote the Oscar nominated screenplay for "The African Queen" with John Huston. Perhaps his best work, "The Night of the Hunter", has become a cult classic and favorite among astute film enthusiasts. He died in 1955, only 45 years old, of a heart attack in NYC.
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