Cotton Tenants by James Agee
In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Penguin Classics, 2006). It was a book which shattered journalistic and literary conventions. Cotton Tenats is an indispensable companion piece. The history of this new volume can be traced back to an assignment for Fortune magazine, which sent Agee and Evans to Alabama in the summer of 1936 and formed the basis for Famous Men. A recent re-examination of Fortune's archives showed that the report was far larger than previously thought - it is this material that forms the basis of Cotton Tenants.JAMES AGEE (1909-55) was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and joined Fortune in 1932 as a staff writer. Grant Me Travel, his poetry collection, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition two years later. Let Us Now Honor Famous Guys, a 1941 book about Alabama tenant farmers during the Great Depression, was published. Agee was later known for co-writing the screenplays for The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter and for his cinema criticism, which appeared regularly in The Nation and Time. He died two years before A Death in the Family, his greatest work of fiction, was published and awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
When WALKER EVANS (1903-75) began working with James Agee, he was on loan from the Resettlement Administration. In 1945, he joined the Time staff and soon after became an editor at Fortune, where he remained for the next two decades. He became a professor at Yale University School of Art in 1964, where he taught until his death in 1975. Union Atlantic and You Are Not a Stranger Here are written by ADAM HASLETT (introduction).
The Baffler's editor in chief is JOHN SUMMERS (editor).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781612193984 |
| ISBN 10 | 1612193986 |
| Title | Cotton Tenants |
| Author | James Agee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Melville House Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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