Agee: The Life and Work of James Agee

James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U. S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer