James Agee was born in Knoxville in 1909 and was an intense writer who did not experience much success during his lifetime. However, after his death, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his uncompleted biographical novel A Death in the Family in 1958.
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The Night of the Hunter (1955)
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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.