A superb collection from James Agee scholars that features myriad approaches for understanding the authorâ??s fiction, poetry, journalism, and screenwriting. Contributors explore overlapping and sometimes unique subjects, themes, and accomplishments in Ageeâ??s uncovered works and highlight the diversity of interest that Ageeâ??s body of work inspires.

"This collection of new essays exploring the life and cultural significance of James Agee grew largely from the scholarship of The Works of James Agee series under the editorial guidance of Michael A. Lofaro. The present volume's eleven essays concern Agee's relation to authors as diverse as Wright Morris, John Dos Passos, William T. Vollmann, Stephen Crane, and Ernest Hemingway. Furthermore, it sheds fresh light on Agee's career as an artist, critic, romantic and modernist, reviewer of books, film, and photography, journalist for Fortune magazine, and, uniquely, explores the author's personal writings through the lens of his father's life"--