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	Literary Encyclopedia: James Agee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		James Rufus Agee was born November 27, 1909, in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Hugh James Agee, who came from a working-class family in a small Appalachian town, and Laura Tyler Agee, whose middle-class family came from Michigan.
		James Agee was born in what was then a small Appalachian city at a time when most of its inhabitants preserved close ties with the distinctly rural culture of East Tennessee.
		Agee's father's parents still lived in the small town of LaFollette, some fifty miles north of Knoxville, and it was on a late-night trip to visit his ailing father that Hugh James Agee was killed in an automobile accident when James Agee was still six years old.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=46 (1732 words)

	James Agee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic.
		When Agee was six, his father died in an automobile accident, and from the age of seven he was sent boarding schools, where he felt isolated from, and abandoned by his mother.
		In 1951 in Santa Barbara, Agee suffered the first two in a series of heart attacks, which ultimately claimed his life four years later at the age of 45.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Agee (622 words)

	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although Agee's and Evans' work was never published as the intended magazine article, their work has endured in the form in which it finally emerged, a lengthy, highly original book.
		Agee's text is part ethnography, part cultural anthropological study, and part novelistic, poetic narrative set in the shacks and fields of Alabama.
		James Agee is a character himself at times in the narrative, as when he agonizes over his role as "spy" and intruder into these humble lives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Let_Us_Now_Praise_Famous_Men (742 words)

	agee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		James Agee was born November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee; however, Agee did not remain in Knoxville for his entire childhood.
		Agee was later accepted by Harvard University where his writing technique was influenced by the work of then visiting instructor I.A. Richards, a proponent of 'New Criticism' in literary theory.
		Agee created complex images that could be fully understood by the reader even if the reader failed to have prior knowledge or experience with Agee's subject matter.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~appalach/writersA/agee.html (627 words)

	James Agee Collection
		James Rufus Agee was born on November 17, 1909, in Knoxville, Tennessee, the first of two children.
		Agee attended Knoxville High School for the 1924-25 school year and after a trip to Europe with Father Flye in the summer of 1925, he enrolled at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, where his interest in writing first began.
		Agee was constantly in despair that he may have sacrificed his own creative efforts for the demands a journalistic style imposed.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/agee.james.html (1519 words)

	MSN Encarta - James Agee
		James Agee (1909-1955), American writer, known for his delicate and moving prose.
		Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Agee was educated at Harvard University.
		In 1936 Agee traveled to the Southern United States with American photographer Walker Evans to document the lives of sharecroppers (see Peonage) for an article in Fortune magazine.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555172/James_Agee.html (310 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Agee wanted to make a connection with the families, and to be liked by them in return, but he didn’t want to swamp the farmers with sympathy—their pride wouldn’t endure it.
		Agee’s stepfather paid his tuition and sent him a check now and then, but at Harvard, then still a place for the wealthy and the wellborn, he was one of the poorer boys.
		Agee was grateful when his friend Dwight Macdonald, a writer at Fortune, got him a job there, in 1932, and he quickly joined the literary-journalistic life of New York, living modestly in walkup apartments in the Village and in Brooklyn, and in small houses in New Jersey, for most of the rest of his life.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books/articles/060109crbo_books (3662 words)

	Southern Quarterly: South Beheld: The Influence of James Agee on James Dickey, The
		JAMES AGEE (1909-1955), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and author of the classic Southern documentary text Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), had a substantial influence on James Dickey (1923-1997), Southern poet and bestselling author of Deliverance (1970).
		Agee's depiction of the poor white South developed in response to the Popular Front political movement of the 1930s and 194Os, as well as to the burgeoning Southern Literary Renaissance of the same period.
		Agee has felt this before: "This is a laughter I have experienced only rarely: listening to the genius of Mozart at its angriest and cleanest, most masculine fire; the sudden memory of some line of Shakespeare...
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4074/is_200401/ai_n9363422 (973 words)

	:: Metro Pulse Online ::
		James Agee is better known today than he was when he collapsed in the back of a New York taxicab, 50 years ago next month.
		Agee’s interest in film as art, potentially even a conduit to the subconscious, was not limited to “The House.” In his 1937 application for a Guggenheim Fellowship, he alludes to “a new form of movie short” that would be “2 to 10 minutes long, capable of many forms within itself.
		Walker Evans, who collaborated with James Agee on their definitive depiction of the lives of sharecroppers in Depression-era Alabama, is thought of as one of the pre-eminent photographers of the last century.
	metropulse.com /articles/2005/15_14/cover_story.shtml (3887 words)

	CURRICULUM VITAE: James K. Agee
		Agee, J. Prescribed fire effects on physical and hydrologic properties of mixed- conifer forest floor and soil.
		Agee, J. The influence of prescribed fires on water-repellency of mixed-conifer forest floor.
		Agee, J.K. Fire and weather disturbances in terrestrial ecosystems of the eastern Cascades.
	www.cof.orst.edu /org/scicomm/cv/agee.htm (1984 words)

	TVA: The Great Experiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Fortune assignment gave Agee his first excuse to revisit his hometown since the year he was 16 and his widowed mother pulled him out of old Knoxville High to finish up at swanky Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.
		Agee spent a week in the Valley doing research, and when he returned to New York he filed an unforgettable story, one unlike any other that had ever appeared in Fortune.
		The piece eventually served as the beginning of what may be Agee’s best-known work today, the autobiographical novel A Death in the Family.”; This bittersweet memoir of his East Tennessee childhood won the Pulitzer Prize for literature.
	www.tva.gov /heritage/experiment (760 words)

	James Agee: A Celebration of his Work
		Agee found that contemporary society and the lackluster educational system had trapped these families, but Agee saw beauty even in their humble existence.
		At the time of James Agee's unexpected death in May 1955, his most famous work was left incomplete.
		Agee actually appears on screen as one of the characters in the segment, as well.
	www.lib.utk.edu:90 /spcoll/agee/agee_home.html (840 words)

	ACP - Tennessee Chapter - Grand Rounds in Literature - Book Review
		James Rufus Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee November 27, 1909 to Hugh James and Laura Tyler Agee.
		James Agee contributed text, while Walker Evans supplied the photographs for Now Let Us Praise Famous Men, a highly regarded meditation on the lives of Alabama sharecroppers.
		With the precision of a psychoanalyst James Agee delineated the turning point in his own life when childhood ended and diverse and emotionally inarticulate forces assumed control of his subsequent development.
	www.acponline.org /chapters/tn/agee.htm (944 words)

	James Agee and the Legend of Himself A Critical Study Alan Spiegel
		James Agee's literary reputation has grown enormously since his death in 1955.
		At the time of Agee's death, all of his published works were either out of print or buried in anthologies.
		Agee became something of a magical presence over a body of attitudes and experiences that may or may not have had anything to do with the writer or his accomplishments.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/spring1998/spiegel.htm (352 words)

	Agee and Evans' Great Experiement
		It was in 1936 that James Agee and Walker Evans, on assignment for Fortune magazine, drove into rural Alabama and entered the world of three families of white tenant farmers.
		Yet they are not forgotten as Agee's story unfolds, for his descriptions of the individuals, the houses they live in, and the land they farm are so vivid as to draw the reader back to the photographs again and again, each time with a new layer of understanding.
		Agee's transcendence of traditional literary forms is, however, appropriately representative of the Great Depression's call for innovation, and his self-consciousness reflects the intense humanism inherent in the New Deal's relief efforts.
	history.hanover.edu /hhr/hhr93_5.html (830 words)

	Metro Pulse/Secret History/James Agee Park
		The park to honor Knoxville-born author James Agee, a project he's been discussing with friends for nearly two years, is going to happen.
		Agee Park seems to be emerging as a rare joint city/UT project.
		James Agee was born in Fort Sanders in 1909 and spent much of his youth here, on Highland, barely a block from the park site.
	www.metropulse.com /dir_zine/dir_2001/1115/t_secret.html (897 words)

	James A. Michener Art Museum: Press Release: Walker Evans and James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
		Doylestown, PA -- The James A. Michener Art Museum is proud to announce the opening of "Walker Evans and James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," an exhibition on this seminal work by two of America's pre-eminent artists and social historians.
		In the summer of 1936, Evans and writer James Agee (1909-1953) were sent by Fortune magazine to visit the home of a sharecropper family in Hale County, Alabama, to document living conditions during the Great Depression.
		As Agee wrote of their shared commitment to the objective documentary method: "there opens before consciousness, and within it, a universe luminous, spacious, incalculably rich and wonderful in each detail." With Agee's original manuscript and Evans's vintage prints, this exhibition examines the parallels of two artists working in different genres on the same subject matter.
	www.michenerartmuseum.org /exhibits/evans-agee-pr.php (556 words)

	Etude \| Autumn 2004 \| Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - James Agee and Walker Evans
		James Agee (the writer) and Walker Evans (the photographer) spent several weeks immersed in the daily lives of three tenant farm families.
		Agee’s complex and elegantly written book gives honor and dignity to the threadbare lives of tenant farmers and addresses Americans’ roles in their fate.
		Agee’s writing may be beautiful, but it is also full of rage as he describes the farmers’ inescapable cycle of poverty.
	etude.uoregon.edu /autumn2004/books/famous.html (532 words)

	Agee's Gospel
		The canonization of James Agee now appears to be complete with Library of America's two-volume set, which brings together his major works of fiction and film criticism, plus some high journalism and the Night of the Hunter screenplay.
		Agee was born in 1909 and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee.
		Agee, an excellent student, enrolled in the Phillips Exeter Academy and later was admitted to Harvard.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20051205/lopate (822 words)

	Fiction: James Agee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Check here for an excellent biographical sketch of Agee and a catalog of the contents of the James Agee Collection, which includes correspondence, screenplays, drafts of stories, articles, essays, and several unpublished works.
		Today, Agee is probably best known for his journalistic 1941 book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, in which he and photographer Walker Evans documented the hardships of sharecroppers during the Great Depression.
		Agee wrote in several other genres including short fiction, poetry, screenplays, and film criticism.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /LITLINKS/fiction/agee.htm (202 words)

	IHAS: Poet
		Of Huguenot ancestry, James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1909, the son of a postal worker who was killed in the prime of his life in an automobile accident.
		In 1916 Agee was sent to an Episcopal boarding school in the Appalachians, Saint Andrews Seminary.
		Agee would seek new platforms for his writing: pioneering the art of film criticism for THE NATION and TIME MAGAZINE, completing his novel, A DEATH IN THE FAMILY, which was published posthumously in 1957, and writing several screenplays and documentary film scripts--leaving one on the Tanglewood Festival unfinished at the time of his death.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/ihas/poet/agee.html (591 words)

	Amazon.com: A Death in the Family (Vintage International): Books: James Agee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Agee used contrasting narratives as a structural device to link the past and present; italicized passages describing the family's life before the fatal automobile accident are incorporated into the primary narrative of the crash and its immediate effects.
		Agee's type of stream of consciousness was his poetic own but closely echoed the masters and he owed them big time.
		James Agee's writing just does something to me. As I read his books, I go back and forth between loving and loathing what I'm reading--I finish his books with a vague feeling of disappointment--and then for YEARS afterward I can't stop thinking about them.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375701230?v=glance (2575 words)

	Amazon.ca: Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Agee was an avid film reviewer for Time magazine and a columnist for the Nation as well as the author of several popular screenplays for his friend John Huston.
		Agee was particularly perceptive about the work of his friend John Huston and recognized the artistic merit of certain B films such as The Curse of the...
		James Agee was short for this world, having died in his mid 40s.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375755292 (1688 words)

	City of Knoxville
		Agee's career highlights also included his avant-garde experimentation in the now-classic novel "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" and his work with two of the most famous photographers of his time, Walker Evans and Helen Levitt.
		The main exhibit, "James Agee: A Celebration of His Work," will open on Friday, April 1 at UT's Hoskins Library and will run through August 15 and the exhibition of Walker Evans' photographs, including some never before seen works, will continue at the UT Downtown Gallery until April 17.
		The James Agee Celebration is made possible by the University of Tennessee, Tennessee Arts Commission, the Knoxville News Sentinel and WUOT 91.9 FM radio.
	www.ci.knoxville.tn.us /Press_Releases/Content/2005/0401b.asp (781 words)

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