James Agee: A Life - Softcover

Bergreen, Laurence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140080643 ISBN 13: 9780140080643

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1985

A biography of American novelist, critic, poet, and screenwriter James Agee discusses his youth, education, marriages and affairs, literary career, profligate lifestyle, and early death and analyzes Agee's role in American letters

About the Author:

Laurence Bergreen is the author of several award-winning biographies, including those of Louis Armstrong, Al Capone, Irving Berlin, and James Agee. He has written for many national publications including Esquire and Newsweek, taught at the New School for Social Research, and served as Assistant to the President of the Museum of Television and Radio in New York. Bergreen has also served as a nonfiction judge for the National Book Awards and as a judge for the PEN/Albrand Nonfiction Award. Voyage to Mars is soon to be an NBC-TV television movie that will premier in spring 2002, and a weekly series that will debut in fall 2002. Bergreen lives in New York City.

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0140080643
• ISBN 13: 9780140080643
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 467