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(1909-1955) American writer. James Agee's work includes Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) and Death in the Family (for which he received a Pulitzer).
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"James Rufus Agee was born on November 17, 1909, in Knoxville, Tennessee, the first of two children. His father, Hugh James Agee, was from rugged farming stock in the mountainous backwoods of Tennessee while Laura Tyler, his mother, had a more educated and artistic background."
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James Agee was a prize-winning novelist, journalist and poet. He is perhaps best known for his autobiographical work, A Death in the Family, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. Here are a few quotes from James Agee.
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