James AGEE was an American novelist, poet, screenwriter, journalist, and film critic who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958 for his novel 'A Death in the Family'. He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1909 and died in 1955. AGEE wrote extensively about the South and is considered one of the most influential Southern writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his works 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men' and 'A Death in the Family'.