James Agee

(1909-1955)

American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic

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James Rufus Agee (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. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Agee is also known as a co-writer of the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and as the screenwriter of the film classics The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter.

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Born	27 November 1909 Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Died	16 May 1955 (aged 45) New York City, U.S.
Zodiac	Sagittarius
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