Poet, film critic, screenwriter, and novelist James Agee is best known for his autobiographical Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, A Death in the Family. Yet the journalistic writings of this Knoxville, Tennessee, native established him as an equal of writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Stephen Crane. James Agee Selected Journalism is a collection of his articles published from 1933 to 1947 by Time and Fortune, two of the eras most influential magazines. This edition of the book includes two new articles from Agees school years and a new introduction by editor Paul Ashdown that places Agees journalistic work in the context of his entire career. Agees readers have often felt that his preoccupation with journalism prevented him from achieving a reputation as a great modern writer.
