Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Revisited
- 5 years ago
This program aired on Nov. 29, 1988, on the PBS series "American Experience." The documentary, directed by Carol Bell, has never been released commercially. I am uploading it here for educational and historical purposes. 2016 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1936 journey that writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans made to Alabama to document the lives of cotton tenant families for Fortune magazine. And 2016 was also the 75th anniversary of the 1941 publication of "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," the book Agee greatly expanded from the material Fortune rejected. While it originally sold only 600 copies, the book found a new audience in the 1960s, during a renewed interest in the works of James Agee (who died in 1955).
RUFUS: JAMES AGEE IN TENNESSEE (University of Tennessee Press, 2018), tells the story of writer James Agee's life and career in light of his Tennessee heritage. This new biography is the definitive account of Agee's family and childhood, which influenced works including his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A DEATH IN THE FAMILY.
https://www.paulfbrown.com
https://www.facebook.com/paul.brown.writer
http://www.utpress.org/title/rufus
RUFUS: JAMES AGEE IN TENNESSEE (University of Tennessee Press, 2018), tells the story of writer James Agee's life and career in light of his Tennessee heritage. This new biography is the definitive account of Agee's family and childhood, which influenced works including his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A DEATH IN THE FAMILY.
https://www.paulfbrown.com
https://www.facebook.com/paul.brown.writer
http://www.utpress.org/title/rufus