# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-agee
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:31:55.319Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-agee"
name: "James Agee"
slug: "james-agee"
description: "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 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."
tagline: "American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic (1909-1955)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1909-11-27"
deathDate: "1955-05-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump