Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

An Annotated Edition of the James Agee-Walker Evans Classic, with Supplementary Manuscripts Volume 3
Herausgeber: Davis, Hugh

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Produktbeschreibung

In this, the third volume in The Works of James Agee, editor Hugh Davis offers a thoroughly annotated edition of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, featuring invaluable explanatory notes as well as notes comparing the published work to extant copies of the original manuscript.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Tennessee Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 1084
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 173mm x 82mm
• Gewicht: 1637g
• ISBN-13: 9781621900306
• ISBN-10: 1621900304
• Artikelnr.: 40404202

Autorenporträt

Hugh Davis is an associate professor of English at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia. He is the author of The Making of James Agee and coeditor, with Michael A. Lofaro, of James Agee Rediscovered: The Journals of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Other New Manuscripts, both published by the University of Tennessee Press. James Agee (1909-1955) was an American writer in mutliple genres. As a journalist, he pioneered serious film criticism. As a novelist, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his posthumously published A Death in the Family. As a screenwriter, he worked on revered films The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter. Walker Evans (1903-1975) was a photographer, most famously for the Farm Security Administration, for whom he worked from 1935 until 1938. His works include American Photographs, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and Many Are Called.