James Old

James Rufus Agee (November 27th 1909, Knoxville, Tennessee - May 16th 1955) is an American novelist. He gained the Prix Pulitzer in 1958 for his autobiographical book has Death in the Family .

Old was born in Knoxville in Tennessee. His/her father dies in an car accident, whereas it is only six years old. From this moment, it is sent in schools far from at his place where it feels insulated and abandoned by his/her mother. It will complete its studies at the University of Harvard.

During the summer 1936, the Time-Life press group charges James Agee, accompanied by the photographer Walker Evans, to carry out a report on the poor White of the Alabama. During six weeks, Old and Evans three families of miserable sharecroppers côtoient. The text which Agee with its commandiataire proposes, as of its return to New York, is refused. It will become finally a perfectly unclassable book, cry of indignation and anger in favor of these victims of the Grande depression, published in 1940 pennies the title: Let us rent the great men now.

In 1942, it becomes critical of film for the Time and writes sometimes also some criticisms of books. In 1948, it leaves this trade to become independent writer.

He dies the May 16th 1955, in New York, in a taxi which brought it in the doctor. He was 45 years old. Curiously, his/her father also died on May 16th.

Works

James Old, Walker Evans, Let us rent the great men now. Alabama: three families of sharecroppers in 1936 , Paris, Plon, Collection " Humaine" ground; , 1972, 473 pages.

Catalog of films

as scenario writer

as actor

as director of the photography

  • 1948 : In the Street

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