James Agee (1909–1955) received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his autobiographical novel A Death in the Family. A poet, journalist, and screenwriter, he is perhaps best known as one of the most influential film critics of the 1940s, as well as for his screenplay The African Queen. With photographer Walker Evans, he produced Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, an exploration of sharecroppers. A hard drinker and smoker, he died of heart failure in New York City before realizing much of his current acclaim.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Near a Church, a nonfiction excerpt, in Stories of the Week: 2009–2010