James Agee: A Life by Laurence Bergreen

James Agee:  A Life by Laurence Bergreen is a 467-page hardcover published in 1984 by E.P. Dutton, Inc., and is a stated first edition.  The dust jacket has some chips and small tears and creases.  Inside, the book is in very good condition. Book Summary James Agee (1905-1955), novelist, journalist, screenwriter, film critic, and poet, was one of the most talented and profligate men in the history of American letters.  His 1941 study of sharecroppers, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with photographs by Walker Evans, is one of the classic documents of the Depression.  His best-selling novel  A Death in the Family won the Pulitzer Prize and was adapted for both stage and screen.  His film reviews for Time and The Nation, later collected in Agee on Film,  revolutionized movie criticism.  His screenplay, The African Queen, became the basis of one of the most enduringly popular of all films (Agee was the prototype for Bogart's character).  In this, the first full-scale biography, Laurence Ber