James Rufus Agee was more in Knoxville, TN in what today is the Fort Sanders neighborhood. The street he was born on was named James Agee Street in his honor.
Hugh James Agee, the author’s father died in a car accident when his son was six years old.
When young Mr. Agee attended the Saint Andrews school for Mountain Boys in Tennessee he developed a lifelong friendship with Father James Harold Flye, an Episcopal priest and history teacher.
Father Flye and Mr. Agee corresponded throughout their lives, become confidants. After the author’s death, Father Flye published the letters in a 1962 book called The Letters of James Agee to Father Flye. The book was a critical success, lauded by many.
Mr. Agee wrote a script for Chaplin, which went unproduced (it was only published in2005), but he is credited on two much respected movie: 1951’s The African Queen and 1955’s The Night of the Hunter. Unfortunately his alcoholism hurt this aspect of his career.
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