James Agee
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James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, 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 Pulitzer Prize.
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List of works
- 1934 Permit Me Voyage, in the Yale Series of Younger Poets
- 1935 Knoxville: Summer of 1915, prose poem later set to music by Samuel Barber.
- 1941 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families, Houghton Mifflin
- 1951 The Morning Watch, Houghton Mifflin
- 1951 The African Queen, screenplay from C. S. Forester novel
- 1952 Face to Face (The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky segment), screenplay from Stephen Crane story
- 1954 The Night of the Hunter, screenplay from Davis Grubb novel
- 1957 A Death in the Family (posthumous; stage adaptation: All the Way Home)
- Agee on Film
- Agee on Film II
- Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
- The Collected Short Prose of James Agee
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