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A Death in the Family is an autobiographical novel by James Agee. It was based on events which occurred to Agee in 1915, when his father went out of town to see his own father, who had suffered a heart attack. During the return trip, Agee's father was killed in a car crash.
James Rufus Agee (/ ˈ eɪ dʒ iː / AY-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic.In the 1940s, writing for Time, he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States.
The musical is based on the novel A Death in the Family written by James Agee, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction upon its release in 1957. [1] [2] The title comes from the setting of the story in Knoxville, Tennessee, where original author Agee was from. The show is set in 1915.
Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 is a lush, richly textured work. Setting music to excerpts from "Knoxville: Summer of 1915", a 1938 prose poem by James Agee that later became a preamble to his posthumously published, Pulitzer Prize-winning book, A Death in the Family (1957), Barber paints an idyllic, nostalgic picture of Agee's native Knoxville, Tennessee.
"A Death in the Family" (comics), a 1980s Batman comic book story arc; Batman: Death in the Family, a 2020 American animated interactive short film based on the story arc; A Death in the Family, a 2009 novel by Karl Ove Knausgård in the My Struggle series "Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)", a 1993 song by Type O Negative from Bloody Kisses
Late in the incisive psychological drama “The Things You Kill,” Ali (Ekin Koç), a married man in his thirties, opens up about a traumatic episode in his childhood and the reasons why he ...