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A Death in the Family by James Agee
Category: Classic Fiction
The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, "A Death in the Family" remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depiction ...Show more
Helen Levitt: a Way of Seeing by Helen Levitt (By (photographer)); James Agee (Text by)
Category: Photography
Ever since it was first published in 1965, Helen Levitt's collection of photographs taken on the streets of 1940s New York City has been revered as a classic of its genre. Made in collaboration with writer James Agee, who provided the book's introduction, A Way of Seeing was published twice more with mo ...Show more
James Agee - Selected Poems by James Agee; Andrew Hudgins (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: American Poets Project Ser.
Better known for writing in a variety of other genres, James Agee always thought of himself as essentially a poet. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition in 1934 for Permit Me Voyage, Agee was, in the words of editor Andrew Hudgins, "as restless in his poetry as he was later in his prose, exhibiti ...Show more
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
Category: Biography
In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. This book provides a record of the place, of the people who shaped the land, and of the rhythm of their lives.
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