James Agee was an American author and a very influential film critic. He is known for an autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), for which he was posthumously awarded the 1958 Pulitzer Prize. He had begun writing A Death in the...
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a collaborative effort between writer James Agree and photographer Walker Evans. Ostensibly a documentary-like prose account of a visit to rural Alabama in the summer of 1936 by the writer and photographer, the work...