JAMES AGEE was a poet, novelist, journalist, film critic, and social activist. His best-known work is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a nonfiction book about the lives of poor Southern farmers, on which he collaborated with photographer Walker Evans. A native of Knoxville, Tennessee, Agee died of a heart attack in 1955 at the age of forty-four.

America! Look At Your Shame!

by James Agee, October 2003 (Issue 334)