Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Agee
- First Published: 1941
- Type of Work: Essay
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Journalism
- Subjects: African Americans, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Social issues, Rural or country life, Poverty or poor people, Farms, farmers, or farming, Ethics, Cotton
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a unique work of literature. It was first conceived as a feature article for Fortune magazine: In the summer of 1936, Agee was sent to Alabama along with photographer Walker Evans to document the lives of tenant farmers. The article they produced, however, was much too passionate and impressionistic for the editors of Fortune, so Agee worked on the project privately and eventually published the “article” as a four-hundred-page book. When it first appeared, only two years after John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath,...
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