James Rufus Agee (1909–1955) was an American writer and critic known for his evocative prose and influential film criticism. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he attended Harvard University before embarking on a career that blended literary exploration with social documentary. He is most famously recognized for his collaboration with photographer Walker Evans on 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men' (1941), which documented the lives of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Agee was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1963, posthumously, for this work. His writing style is characterized by a deep sense of place and an unsparing realism that captured the plight of rural Americans.[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]
