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James Agee (1909–1955)

Autor/a de A Death in the Family

35+ obres 7,049 Membres 110 Ressenyes 16 preferits

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Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 27, 1909 and educated at Harvard, James Agee crowded versatile literary activity into his short and troubled life. In addition to two novels, he wrote short stories, essays, poetry, and screenplays; he worked professionally as a journalist and film critic. mostra'n més Appropriately, he is best remembered for a work that combines several genres and literary approaches. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a documentary report on sharecropper life accompanied by vividly realistic photographs by Walker Evans, has been called "a great Moby Dick of a book" (New York Times Book Review). It may be considered an important precursor of the so-called nonfiction novel that was to gain prominence during the 1960s. The Morning Watch (1954), a novel in the tradition of portraits of artists-to-be, and A Death in the Family, a moving account of domestic life based on the loss of Agee's father belong to more conventional types of fiction. The 1960 dramatization of All the Way Home by Tad Mosel, won a Pulitizer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award; it was also cited by Life as the "Best American Play of the Season." Agee's work for the screen included his scripts for The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter. Agee on Film (1958-60) consists of a gathering of reviews and comments as well as five scripts. Prior to Laurence Bergreen's well-received 1984 biography of Agee, the principal source of information about his life was Letters of James Agee to Father Flye, a collection of seventy letters written by Agee to his instructor at St. Andrew's School and trusted friend throughout his life. The letters show Agee most often in a reflective, self-condemning mood. The final letters, written from the hospital where he was battling daily heart attacks, are touching, as are his sad reflections on the work he yet wanted to do. Agee died in New York of a heart attack on May 16, 1955. He was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1957 for A Death in the Family. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

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Obres de James Agee

A Death in the Family (1957) 3,031 exemplars
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1939) 2,122 exemplars
The Night of the Hunter [1955 film] (1955) — Screenwriter — 180 exemplars
The Morning Watch (1950) 154 exemplars
Cotton Tenants: Three Families (2013) 151 exemplars
The Collected Poems of James Agee (1968) 104 exemplars
James Agee: Selected Poems (2008) 62 exemplars
Helen Levitt (1980) — Autor — 51 exemplars

Obres associades

The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Col·laborador — 774 exemplars
As I Lay Dying [Norton Critical Edition] (2009) — Col·laborador — 544 exemplars
Reporting World War II Part One : American Journalism, 1938-1944 (1995) — Col·laborador — 437 exemplars
Fifty Great American Short Stories (1965) — Col·laborador — 430 exemplars
Reporting World War II Part Two : American Journalism 1944-1946 (1995) — Col·laborador — 388 exemplars
The Best American Essays 2004 (2004) — Col·laborador — 289 exemplars
The African Queen [1951 film] (1951) — Screenwriter — 289 exemplars
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Col·laborador — 214 exemplars
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Col·laborador — 162 exemplars
Many Are Called (2004) — Introducció — 108 exemplars
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Col·laborador — 98 exemplars
A Way of Seeing (1965) — Col·laborador — 54 exemplars
Southern Dogs and Their People (2000) — Col·laborador — 39 exemplars
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Col·laborador — 39 exemplars
New Masses; An Anthology of the Rebel Thirties, (1969) — Col·laborador — 38 exemplars
Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965 (1965) — Col·laborador — 36 exemplars
Philosophical problems of the social sciences (1965) — Col·laborador — 34 exemplars
The Yale Younger Poets Anthology (1998) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1953 (1953) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1958 (1958) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Paras elokuvakirja (1995) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Twenty-Three Modern Stories (1963) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Le livre Terre humaine (1993) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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This was one of those books that was never on any of my reading lists but seemed like one of those American classics that I should have read. It's such a very sad story, it's hard to recommend....but the descriptive writing is unlike anything I've ever read. This story could be great for a book club discussion.
 
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ellink | Hi ha 66 ressenyes més | Jan 22, 2024 |
Reason read; Pulitzer 1958, TIOLI read a book with death in the title
I had this on my list to read at least twice before and I finally got it read. I did not know anything about the book and discovered that this is an autobiographical novel. The author's dad died in a car accident. In this story the death is reflected by the wife, by the brother of the deceased , by Rufus the son and his sister. It explores religion. The wife is Catholic, the father is an atheist. The author died before publishing the story. The story is set in Tennessee.
The setting is in the early 1900s. The automobile is new, many still get around by horse and wagon. It was rewritten by David McDowell who took liberties. Michael Lofaro maintains that the novel as published 1957 was not the version intended for print by the author. Lofaro discussed his work at a conference that was part of the Knoxville James Agee Celebration (April 2005). Having tracked down the author's original manuscripts and notes, Lofaro reconstructed a version he considers more authentic. This version, entitled A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author's Text, was published in 2007. I think I read the one by McDowell. And that would be the one that actually won the Pulitzer.
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Kristelh | Hi ha 66 ressenyes més | Dec 30, 2023 |
For anyone who likes to read letters, this collection is fantastic and fascinating.
 
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MickeyMole | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Oct 2, 2023 |
Premio Pulitzer 1958
 
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LaRayadelPalancar | Hi ha 66 ressenyes més | Sep 9, 2023 |

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ISBN
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