“The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.”

— James Agee

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About James Agee

Author • American

James Rufus Agee was an American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family, won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958. Agee is also known for...

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