“I’ll croak before I write ads or sell bonds—or do anything except write.”
James Agee’s father died when he was just six years old, a loss immortalized in his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, A Death in the Family. Three years later, Agee’s mother moved the mourning family from Knoxville, Tennessee, to the campus of St. Andrew’s, an Episcopal boarding school near Sewanee. 
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AGEE is the story of James Agee, one of the most talented writers of our time. A quintessentially American writer, driven by passions for work, friends, films, and ideas, Agee established a reputation as both a warm-hearted genius and as "a soverign prince of the English language." In his short, luminous career, James Agee worked as a poet, journalist, film critic, screenwriter, and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose works include "Let Us Now Praise...