James Agee
1909
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1955
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
native language: English
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Harvard University, Phillips Exeter Academy, St. Andrew's-Sewanee School, Knoxville High School, Eliot House
occupation: screenwriter, poet, novelist, journalist, autobiographer, writer, critic, film critic, film director
James Rufus Agee ( 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. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Agee is also known as a co-writer of the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and as the screenwriter of the film classics The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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The Morning Watch
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
A Death in the Family
L'Odyssée de l'African queen : [The Africanqueen], [The Night of the hunter]
Cotton Tenants: Three Families
The Collected Short Prose of James Agee
Let us now praise famous men : three tenant families
Film writing and selected journalism : Agee on film, reviews and comments, uncollected film writing, journalism and book reviews
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A death in the family : a restoration of the author's text
The Night of the Hunter
Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
Le 1er janvier 1920
Articles
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