James Agee – Axios Press

Books/Writings

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
(Available New and Used)
A Death in the Family
(Available New and Used)

James Agee

1909 – 1955

American

Author of books, and important film scripts (The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter). He collaborated with Walker Evans in capturing the gritty poverty of the pre-World War II American South in Let us Now Praise Famous Men.

Contemporaries

1895–1951	William Wilson
Born 1929	Edward Wilson
1856–1924	Woodrow Wilson
1911–1983	Tennessee Williams
1856–1923	Kate Wiggin
1917–1999	William Whyte
1827–1915	Ellen White
1856–1915	Booker T. Washington
1927–1987	Andy Warhol
1877–1936	William Walling
1920–2012	Russell Errol Train
1888–1953	Jim Thorpe
1919–2014	Pete Seeger
1852–1916	Charles Russell
1879–1935	Will Rogers
1885–1954	Ruth Rohde
1910–2004	Laurance Rockefeller
1839–1937	John D. Rockefeller
1911–2004	Ronald Reagan
1921–2002	John Rawls
1911–1993	Vincent Price
1935–1977	Elvis Presley
1839–1914	Charles Peirce
1885–1945	George Patton
1871–1955	Maud Park
1913–1980	Jesse Owens
1929–1994	Jacqueline Onassis
1913–1994	Richard Nixon
1846–1911	Carry Nation
Born 1934	Ralph Nader
1837–1913	J. P. Morgan
1900–1949	Margaret Mitchell
1855–1942	Clinton Merriam
1890–1944	Aimee McPherson
1909–1957	Joseph McCarthy
Born 1927	Peter Matthiessen
1915–2001	William Masters
1925–1965	Malcolm X
1887–1948	Aldo Leopold
1918–2002	Ann Landers
1922–1969	Jack Kerouac
1859–1932	Florence Kelley
1925–2013	Virginia Johnson
1819–1910	Julia Howe
Born 1918	Billy Graham
1869–1940	Emma Goldman
1886–1953	Douglas Southall Freeman
Born 1933	Louis Farrakhan
1821–1910	Mary Baker Eddy
Born 1941	Bob Dylan
1864–1943	George Washington Carver
Born 1924	Jimmy Carter
1888–1955	Dale Carnegie
1860–1925	William Jennings Bryan
Born 1921	Daniel Berrigan
Born 1921	Aaron Beck
Born 1935	Woody Allen
1838–1918	Henry Adams