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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1957
  • Latest Book:
    January 2008
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Book List in Order: 7 titles



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    Forty years after its original publication, James Agee's last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man's death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic ...







  • Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee photographed by Walker Evans. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1973. This portrait of poverty-stricken Southern tenant farmers during the Great Depression has become one of the most influential books of the...



  • The Morning Watch by James Agee, like his A Death in the Family, which won him the Pulitzer Prize, is autobiographical. It describes the experiences of twelve-year-old Richard during the early hours of Good Friday and the early stages of spring, in a...




  • Published in 1957 to wide acclaim, James Agee's A Death in the Family was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature. However, the novel had been so heavily edited by publisher and editor David McDowell that it little resembled the manusc...




Award-Winning Books by James Agee

Death in the Family
1957 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Agee has published 7 books.

James Agee does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author's Text, was published in January 2008.

The first book by James Agee, Death in the Family, was published in January 1957.

No. James Agee does not write books in series.