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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 novel was adapted into All the Way Home by Tad Mosel.The play won a 1961 Pulitzer Prize.. A film entitled All The Way Home (1963), adapted by Philip H. Reisman, Jr. from the Agee novel and the Mosel play, was filmed in the same Knoxville neighborhood where Agee grew up.
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1958. Journalism awards "The ... A Death in the Family by James Agee (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky).
And Their Children After Them (ISBN 9780394577661; subtitled The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South), written by Dale Maharidge, photographed by Michael Williamson, and published by Pantheon Books in 1989, won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. [1]
The TheaterMania reviewer wrote, "The achingly moving play is Tad Mosel's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning adaptation of James Agee's autobiographical 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'A Death in the Family', and in reviving the piece, director Jack Cummings III confirms that both prizes are deserved." [2]
As defined in the original Plan of Award, the prize was given "Annually, for the American novel published during the year which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life, and the highest standard of American manners and manhood," although there was some struggle over whether the word wholesome should be used instead of whole, the word Pulitzer had written in his will. [3]
NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's novel “James,” his acclaimed reworking of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has won a $50,000 prize that continues Everett's recent wave of literary honors. On Wednesday night, “James” was awarded the Kirkus Prize for fiction.
Agee is a 1980 American documentary film [1] about the writer and film critic James Agee [2] directed and produced by Ross Spears. [3] It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature .