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"I'll croak before I write ads or sell bonds--or do anything except write." James Agee's father died when he was just six years old, a loss immortalized in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Death in the Family . Three years later, Agee's mother moved the mourning family from... Read Full Overview

The Letters of James Agee to Father Flye is a collection of personal letters written by James Agee, a prominent American writer and journalist, to his close friend and confidant, Father James Harold Flye. The letters were written over a period of several years, from 1948 until... Read Full Overview

After his father died when he was six-years-old, James Agee moved with his mother to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he enrolled in an Episcopalian boarding school. There he started up a friendship with the pastor James Harold Flye, with whom he maintained a long epistolary friendship... Read Full Overview