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James Rufus Agee 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 o…

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culture · American writer (1909–1955) · screenwriter · poet · novelist · journalist · autobiographer · writer · critic · film critic · film director · librettist · also James Agee, Rufus Agee, Agee

Born 27 November 1909 · Died 16 May 1955 · Q352963

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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Death in the Family (1958).
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Jun 15, 2025Documented record69% confidence

JSTOR Daily: James Agee in Context: New Literary, Visual, Cultural, and Historical Essays

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Mar 1, 2025Documented record69% confidence

Chattanooga Times Free Press: Review: A new collection of James Agee’s poetry displays the writer’s range and ambition

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2022· 1 entry

May 28, 2022Documented record69% confidence

The Atlantic: James Agee in 1936

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2007· 1 entry

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Michael Lofaro published a restored edition of the novel using Agee's original manuscripts

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2003· 1 entry

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Titled Cotton Tenants, is believed to be the essay submitted to Fortune editors

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1958· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1958Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Death in the Family (1958).

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1957· 1 entry

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His novel A Death in the Family (based on the events surrounding his father's death) was published posthumously and in 1958 won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

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1955· 1 entry

May 16, 1955Documented record86% confidence

Died 1955-05-16.

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1951· 1 entry

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In Santa Barbara, Agee, a hard drinker and chain-smoker, suffered a heart attack; on May 16, 1955, he was in Manhattan when he suffered a fatal heart attack in a taxi cab en route to a doctor's appointment

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1948· 1 entry

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Agee quit his job to become a freelance writer

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1947· 1 entry

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And 1948, Agee wrote an untitled screenplay for Charlie Chaplin, in which the Tramp survives a nuclear holocaust; posthumously titled The Tramp's New World, the text was published in 2005

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1941· 2 entries

1941Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

The book has been placed among the greatest literary works of the 20th century by the New York University School of Journalism and the New York Public Library

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1941Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And Alma moved to Mexico with their year-old son Joel to live with Communist politician and writer Bodo Uhse

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1937· 1 entry

1937Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

While working on a book, then, in 1939, he took a book reviewing job at Time, sometimes reviewing up to six books per week; together, he and his friend Whittaker Chambers ran "the back of the book" for Time

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1934· 1 entry

1934Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Published his only volume of poetry, Permit Me Voyage, with a foreword by Archibald MacLeish

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1909· 1 entry

Nov 27, 1909Documented record86% confidence

Born 1909-11-27.

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