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While best known for his work as a novelist, journalist, and film critic-Knoxville-born writer James Agee was also an award-winning poet. Having published his first volume of poetry at just…
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Hugh Davis
Wildly productive during his short life, James Agee (1909-1955) is today perhaps best remembered as a novelist, but he was also a poet, screenwriter, journalist, essayist, book reviewer, and movie…
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These recollections centre on the American novelist, poet, screenwriter, journalist, film critic and cult hero, James Agee. Contributors include his widow Mia Agee, John Huston, Anderw Lytle and Walker Evans…
Paul F. Brown
One of the most gifted of America’s writers, James Rufus Agee (1909-1955), spent a third of his short life in Tennessee, yet no biographical treatment has fully explored his roots…
James Agee
Oscillating between earnest questions and bawdy jokes, James Agee’s decades of letters, compiled by their trusty recipient, Father Flye, explore issues of spiritual belief, literature, family, success and writing. Though…
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The Morning Watch by James Agee, like his A Death in the Family, which won him the Pulitzer Prize, is autobiographical. It describes the experiences of twelve-year-old Richard during the…
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On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to…
Louise Agee Wrinkle
"Listen to the Land is an engaging, informative, and poignant memoir of a life spent tending one particular property, a woodland garden in Birmingham, Alabama. Louise Agee Wrinkle grew up…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for James Agee’s A Death in the Family, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Better known for writing in a variety of other genres, James Agee always thought of himself as essentially a poet. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition in 1934 for…
A superb collection from James Agee scholars that features myriad approaches for understanding the author’s fiction, poetry, journalism, and screenwriting. Contributors explore overlapping and sometimes unique subjects, themes, and accomplishments…
Joseph Anthony Ward,Richard Goodman
Shows hows Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg , Ohio and Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time , along with several other crucial works of twentieth-century American realism, incorporate the power of the silent…
Helen Levitt’s classic presentation of New York street photography in a new expanded and revised edition
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In 1939, the author was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune . Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn Bridge…
James Agee,Walker Evans
This handsome new paperback edition of an American classic is an invaluable document of the human and religious meaning of the lives of sharecroppers in the impoverished South. It follows…
On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, who he believes is dying. The summons turns out to…
James K Agee
The structure of most virgin forests in the western United States reflects a past disturbance history that includes forest fire. James K. Agee, an expert in the emergent field of…
James K. Agee
Provides a multidimensional perspective on Klamath Mountains region and asks, how can we most effectively steward this spectacular landscape toward a sustainable future? This title introduces the Klamath’s ecosystems, including…
Erling Larsen
James Agee - American Writers 95 was first published in 1971. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the…
William Hughes
When Agee agreed to write a five-part script for the infant television industry’s series Omnibus, he had to work within his own and his society’s ideological and institutional conflicts.
Coinciding with the increasing intersections between visual and literary studies, this timely reappraisal of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sheds light on the book’s unclassifiable status as part imaginative…
In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. This book provides a record…
In this, the third volume in The Works of James Agee, editor Hugh Davis offers a thoroughly annotated edition of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, featuring invaluable explanatory notes…
Harold Biswell
This study introduces the principles and practices of prescribed burning, which apply far beyond California, within a historical and ecological perspective. First published in 1989, this edition includes a new…
Robert Coles (James Agee Professor of Social Ethics, James Agee Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard University)
A study of the nature of documentary work. Utilizing the documentaries of writers, photographers and others, the book aims to show how their prose and pictures are influenced by the…
The need for cooperation among government agencies as well as an interdisciplinary approach to the increasingly challenging and complicated problem of managing park and wilderness areas prompted the University of…
Fire is both an integral natural process in the California landscape and growing threat to its urban and suburban developments as they encroach on wildlands. This title synthesizes our knowledge…
In addition to producing such distinguished literary works as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and A Death in the Family, James Agee spent almost two decades of his professional…
Dr Michael A Lofaro
Novelist, journalist, film critic, poet, and activist James Agee (1909?1955) produced an impressive array of literary works spanning three decades. His poems, novels, essays, works of criticism, and screenplays gave…
This second volume in The Library of America’s two-volume Agee edition includes Agee on Film, previously uncollected film criticism, Agee’s screenplay for The Night of the Hunter, and much more.
