James AGEE was an American writer and film critic. He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1909 and died in 1955. He is best known for his novel A Death in the Family, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958. He also wrote several screenplays, including The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter. He was a prolific film critic, writing for The Nation, Time, and The New Yorker. He was also a poet and essayist, and his work has been widely anthologized.