A Study Guide for James Agee's "A Death in the Family," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; char

Agee's colleague at Time in the 1940s, John Hersey, writes a major evaluation of Agee's work and the Agee legend in a new introduction to this literary classic.

A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famou

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