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James Agee
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American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic (1909-1955)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 48
Top works
- Death in the Family (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
- A Death In The Family
- Consequence of Performance Enhancing Drugs
- Bontrix
- Under the Mountains
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1909-11-27
- Active to
- 1955-05-16
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 84
- Total plays
- 340
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 77,497x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 67,193x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 65,105x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,710x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,272x
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Key facts
- Born
- James Rufus Agee , November 27, 1909, Knoxville, Tennessee , U.S.
- Died
- May 16, 1955 (1955-05-16) (aged 45), New York City , U.S.
- Education
- Harvard University ( BA )
- Notable works
- A Death in the Family , Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Spouse
- Via Saunders ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1933 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1938 ) Alma Mailman ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1938 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1941 ) Mia Fritsch ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1946 )
- Children
- 4, including Joel
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
Show 3 more facts
- date of death
- 1955-05-16
- date of birth
- 1909-11-27
- birth name
- James Rufus Agee
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Article
James Rufus Agee (/ˈeɪdʒiː/ 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.
Early life and education