James Agee
Authors · Directors · autobiographer · critic · film critic · librettist
American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic (1909-1955)
About James Agee
James Rufus Agee ( AY-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for Time, he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Agee is also known as a co-writer of the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and as the screenwriter of the film classics The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter.
Quick facts
- Known for
- A Death in the Family, The African Queen, The Night of the Hunter
- Born
- 1909-11-27
- Died
- 1955-05-16
- Artist type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Knoxville
- Associated area
- United States
- Active period
- 1909-11-27 – 1955-05-16
- MusicBrainz description
- writer
- ISNI
- 0000000121308918
