James AGEE was an American novelist, poet, screenwriter, and journalist who co-wrote the screenplay for the 1951 classic film The African Queen. He wrote the screenplay with John Huston, who also directed the movie. AGEE's work on the film earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing, Screenplay. AGEE is best known for his novel A Death in the Family, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958.