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James Agee (1909–1955)

Author of A Death in the Family

Includes the names: James Agee, James Agees

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Works by James Agee

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A Death in the Family 1,767 copies, 33 reviews
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 1,169 copies, 13 reviews
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction 196 copies, 2 reviews
Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies (Modern Library the… 115 copies
Film Writing and Selected Journalism 114 copies
The Morning Watch 103 copies, 1 review
Letters of James Agee to Father Flye 94 copies, 1 review
Agee On Film Volume 1 66 copies
The collected poems of James Agee 53 copies
Agee on Film, Vol. 2: Five Film Scripts 42 copies
The Collected Short Prose of James Agee 37 copies
James Agee: Selected Poems 30 copies
Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes 18 copies
James Agee, selected journalism 10 copies

Cotton Tenants: Three Families 10 copies, 1 review

Permit Me Voyage 8 copies

The Night of the Hunter 5 copies

Religion and the intellectuals; a symposium 3 copies

Selected Poems 2 copies

Jim 1 copy

Sure on This Shining Night: No. 1 from "Nocturnes" 1 copy

The last letter of James Agee to Father Flye 1 copy

Film: An Anthology 1 copy

Partisan eview: March-April, 1951. Number 2 1 copy

L'odyssée de l'African Queen 1 copy

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As I Lay Dying [Norton Critical Edition] (Contributor) 410 copies, 6 reviews
The Best American Essays of the Century (Contributor) 402 copies, 5 reviews
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories… (Contributor) 273 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Essays 2004 (Contributor) 216 copies, 1 review
A way of seeing (Contributor) 29 copies, 1 review
Philosophical problems of the social sciences (Contributor) 18 copies
Twenty-three modern stories (Contributor) 1 copy

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Agee, James Rufus

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Agee Family Farm, Hillsdale, New York, USA

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Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

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New York, New York, USA

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Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

Santa Barbara, California, USA

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Harvard University

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American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1949])

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