Novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic
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Agee, Rufus, 1909-1955
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His Permit me voyage, 1934.
Contemporary authors on Infotrac, Jan. 30, 2008 (James Agee; James Rufus Agee; b. Nov. 27, 1909, Knoxville, Tenn., d. May 16, 1955, New York, NY; poet, novelist, screenwriter, and reviewer)
Wikipedia viewed August 12, 2020 (James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, ... Agee, a hard drinker and chain-smoker, suffered a heart attack; on May 16, 1955, Agee was in New York City when he suffered a fatal heart attack in a taxi cab en route to a doctor's appointment.[18] He was buried on a farm he owned at Hillsdale, New York, property still held by Agee descendants.
