James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic(born 1909)

James Agee

American writer (1909–1955)

James Rufus Agee 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…