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James Rufus Agee

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American[1,2] b. 27 November 1909, Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.[1,2,5,6,7,8] d. 16 May 1955, New York City, New York, U.S.[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]

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]

  • rural poverty
  • Great Depression
  • American life
  • social documentary

Books

  1. Walker Evans, James Rufus Agee Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families 2258
    Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
    Walker Evans
    €12.00

Works by James Rufus Agee

  • 1941 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Houghton Mifflin · book · English Collaborative work with Walker Evans.

Awards

  • 1963 Pulitzer Prize

References

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  5. Let Us Now Praise James Agee link
  6. The Formative Years of James Agee link
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  9. Let us now praise famous men link
  10. Let us now praise famous men by James Agee link
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  12. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men link