James Agee

American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic (1909-1955)

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Lived 1909–1955, aged 46United States

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Era
1909–1955
Aged 46
Known for
The Night of the Hunter
1955

Summary

Updated 2026-06-21

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.