KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — James Agee died two years before his novel, “A Death in the Family,” was published in 1957. He never lived to see the book win the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, or to see it become a ...

During the George Zimmerman trial, I happened to be reading James Agee's Depression classic, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The book describes the lives of three families of tenant farmers in Alabama, ...

Let the rerelease of the Letters of James Agee to Father Flye be a reminder to all those who dream of becoming a writer that stringing together sentences is a brutal way to make a living. Writing may ...

It is a blistering summer afternoon in Hale County, Alabama. After weeks of research and preparation, James Agee and Walker Evans have at last encountered the three tenant families with whom they will ...

Jason Danieley and Paul Alexander Nolan in the rehearsal room for “Knoxville” at Asolo Rep. About five years ago, while Frank Galati was spending time at his beach cottage in Michigan, he crafted a ...

In a 1971 interview, Walker Evans said that he thought of his work as “documentary style” photography. He argued that art could never be the equivalent of a document because art is not useful. This ...

“Of my own writing have been as usual trying this that and the other thing, finishing little or nothing. Most of it has hung somewhere between satire and what I suppose would be called ‘moralistic’ ...

James Agee died two years before his novel, “A Death in the Family,” was published in 1957. He never lived to see the book win the Pulitzer Prize in 1958. He never even approved its final form. Now ...

AT THE time, Agee was a youthful-looking twenty-seven. I think he felt he was elaborately masked, but what you saw right away — alas for conspiracy — was a faint rubbing of Harvard and Exeter, a hint ...