The Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
by Agee, James; Edited By Michael Sragow
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good ++
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About This Item
New York: Bantam Books, 1963. Mass market paperback, 217 pages; age toned, very gently read, if at all, very clean and unmarked. See also our listing for 2-Volume Set: Agee on Film, Volume One [1], Essays, Reviews and Comments, and Volume Two [2], Five Film Plays [Scripts].. First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good ++.
Synopsis
James Agee (1909–1955) was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He graduated from Harvard in 1932 and was hired as a staff writer at Henry Luce’s Fortune magazine. His collection of poetry, Permit Me Voyage , won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition and was published in 1934. Though he hoped to dedicate himself full-time to poetry and fiction, Agee would remain a Time, Inc., writer for fourteen years, winning high praise from Luce himself, who considered Agee’s Fortune essay on the Tennessee Valley Authority to be the best the magazine ever published. (For his part, Agee fantasized about shooting Luce.) His book about Alabama tenant farmers during the Depression, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , a collaboration with the photographer Walker Evans, appeared in 1941. The book was a commercial and critical failure, selling just six hundred copies in its first year of publication. Agee was later renowned for his film criticism, which appeared regularly in The Nation and Time . He cowrote the screenplays for The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter , as well as a screenplay for Charlie Chaplin, though it was never produced. Agee died of a heart attack in a New York City taxicab at forty-five. Two years later, his novel, A Death in the Family , was published and won the Pulitzer Prize. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was republished in 1960 and hailed, on its rerelease, as an American classic. In 2013, Cotton Tenants: Three Families , a rediscovered magazine article about the Alabama tenant families, was published to critical acclaim. James Harold Flye (1884–1985) was an Episcopal priest and teacher. He spent thirty-six years at St. Andrew’s school in Tennessee, and later served as a pastor at St. Luke’s in New York. Robert Phelps (1922–1989) was an editor, author, and translator. He was a cofounder of Grove Press and edited works by Colette and Jean Cocteau.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 041450
- Title
- The Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
- Author
- Agee, James; Edited By Michael Sragow
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- PERSONAL MEMOIR AUTOBIOGRAPHY LITERARY CRITICISM APPRECIATION INTERPRETATION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Biography; Literary Criticism;
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