James Agee

James Agee was an American writer, poet, journalist, film critic, and screenwriter known for his vivid prose and humane attention to ordinary lives. He is best known for “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” his screenplays for “The African Queen” and “The Night of the Hunter,” and the posthumously published novel “A Death in the Family,” which won the Pulitzer Prize. [3][6][7]

Knoxville, Tennessee, USA Nov 27, 1909 Wikipedia
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