James Agee(1909-1955)
- Writer
- Actor
- Director
James Agee, Pulitzer Prize winning author, was born in Knoxville in
1909. The intense writer was to enjoy little real success in his
lifetime, but after death won accolades. In 1958 he won the Pulitzer
Prize in fiction for his uncompleted biographical novel A Death in the
Family. Agee also wrote the classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men with
Walker Evans and the Oscar nominated screenplay for The African Queen
with John Huston. Agee also appeared in a film and several TV shows
while working in Hollywood. He died in 1955, only 45 years old, of a
heart attack in NYC.
