Which American author wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winner 'A Death in the Family?
"Works of James Agee"" (2007). According to Lofaro, McDowell altered the original text in a number of ways: The novel was adapted into ""All the Way Home"", a 1961 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tad Mosel. The movie ""All The Way Home"" (1963) was adapted by Philip H. Reisman, Jr. from the Agee novel and the Mosel play. It was filmed in the same neighborhood where Agee grew up in Knoxville. Produced by David Susskind and directed by Alex Segal, it stars Robert Preston, Jean Simmons and Pat Hingle. A PBS TV movie version, filmed in Tennessee and starring Annabeth Gish,"
"James Agee James Rufus Agee ( ; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, ""A Death in the Family"" (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Hugh James Agee and Laura Whitman Tyler, at Highland Avenue and 15th Street, which was renamed James Agee Street, in 1909, in what is now the Fort Sanders neighborhood. When Agee was six, his father was killed"
"when he suffered a fatal heart attack in a taxi cab en route to a doctor's appointment. He was buried on a farm he owned at Hillsdale, New York, property still held by Agee descendants. During his lifetime, Agee enjoyed only modest public recognition. Since his death, his literary reputation has grown. In 1957, his novel ""A Death in the Family"" (based on the events surrounding his father's death) was published posthumously and in 1958 won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In 2007, Dr. Michael Lofaro published a restored edition of the novel using Agee's original manuscripts. Agee's work had"
"Is Loony"", a one-act play by Knoxville-based songwriter and playwright RB Morris, takes place in a New York apartment during one night in Agee's life. The play has been performed at venues around Knoxville, and at the Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village. James Agee James Rufus Agee ( ; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, ""A Death in the Family"" (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Agee"
"Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book ""In Cold Blood"" (1966). Capote"
"the award for ""Best Production"" in the Armel Opera Competition and Festival. Filmed excerpts from the production have been uploaded to YouTube.com. William Mayer (composer) William Mayer (November 18, 1925 – November 17, 2017) was an American composer, best known for his prize-winning opera ""A Death in the Family"". Mayer was born in New York City, the son of Dorothy (née Ehrich) and John C. Mayer. He entered Yale University in 1944, but his college years were interrupted by military service (he served as a counter-intelligence agent in US-occupied Japan). Upon his discharge he re-entered Yale and graduated in 1949,"
"inbox. See On August 5, 2016, Dash was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Associated of Black Journalists (NABJ) along with 43 other founders of the organization. Leon Dash Leon Dash (born , in New Bedford, Massachusetts) is a professor of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A former reporter for the ""Washington Post"", he is the author of ""Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America"", which grew out of the eight-part ""Washington Post"" series for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Dash grew up in New York City and later attended"
"in the 2005 film ""Capote""; and by Lee Pace in the 2006 film ""Infamous"". Richard Hickock Richard Eugene ""Dick"" Hickock (June 6, 1931 – April 14, 1965) was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel ""In Cold Blood"". Along with Perry Edward Smith, Hickock took part in the burglary of the Clutter family farmhouse. Richard Eugene Hickock was born in Kansas City, Kansas, to farmworker parents, Walter Sr. and Eunice Hickock. He was"
"His Family His Family is a novel by Ernest Poole published in 1917 about the life of a New York widower and his three daughters in the 1910s. It received the first Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1918. ""His Family"" tells the story of a middle-class family in New York City in the 1910s. The family's patriarch, widower Roger Gale, struggles to deal with the way his daughters and grandchildren respond to the changing society. Each of his daughters responds in a distinctively different way to the circumstances of their lives, forcing Roger into attempting to calm the increasingly"
"quotes a call from Kansas State Penitentiary where Smith says, ""Being brought up one way and trying to see another way is very difficult."" Perry Edward Smith Perry Edward Smith (October 27, 1928 – April 14, 1965) was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel ""In Cold Blood"". Along with Richard Hickock, Smith took part in the burglary of the Clutter family farmhouse. Perry Edward Smith was born in Huntington, Nevada, a now-abandoned"
"Perry Edward Smith Perry Edward Smith (October 27, 1928 – April 14, 1965) was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel ""In Cold Blood"". Along with Richard Hickock, Smith took part in the burglary of the Clutter family farmhouse. Perry Edward Smith was born in Huntington, Nevada, a now-abandoned community in Elko County. His parents, Florence Julia ""Flo"" Buckskin and John ""Tex"" Smith, were rodeo performers. Smith was of mixed Irish and Cherokee"
"Massachusetts Historical Society and Columbia University's Oral History Collection. Charles Warren (U.S. author) Charles Warren (March 9, 1868 – August 16, 1954) was an American lawyer and legal scholar who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book ""The Supreme Court in United States History"" (1922). Warren was born in Boston, Massachusetts, a great-great-grandson of Mercy Otis Warren and the son of lawyer Winslow Warren (collector of the Port of Boston) and Mary Lincoln Tinkham. The family moved to Dedham, Massachusetts when Charles was three, where his biographer notes the family ""remained active and loyal Democrats in a bastion of Republicanism."""
"Richard Hickock Richard Eugene ""Dick"" Hickock (June 6, 1931 – April 14, 1965) was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel ""In Cold Blood"". Along with Perry Edward Smith, Hickock took part in the burglary of the Clutter family farmhouse. Richard Eugene Hickock was born in Kansas City, Kansas, to farmworker parents, Walter Sr. and Eunice Hickock. He was a popular student and an athlete at Olathe High School before head injuries from"
"Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Thomas Chastain Thomas Chastain (January 17, 1921 – September 1, 1994) was an American author of crime fiction. He is best known for his bestseller ""Who Killed the Robins Family? And Where and When and Why and How Did They Die?"" as well as the sequel to that work. He was born January 17, 1921 and died in September 1994. He served as the president of Mystery Writers of America in 1989. He was also known as Nick Carter and Thomas Chastain, Jr. Chastain was born in Canada but grew up in the south of"
"Thomas Chastain Thomas Chastain (January 17, 1921 – September 1, 1994) was an American author of crime fiction. He is best known for his bestseller ""Who Killed the Robins Family? And Where and When and Why and How Did They Die?"" as well as the sequel to that work. He was born January 17, 1921 and died in September 1994. He served as the president of Mystery Writers of America in 1989. He was also known as Nick Carter and Thomas Chastain, Jr. Chastain was born in Canada but grew up in the south of the United States. He attended"
"a 1938 prose poem by James Agee that later became a preamble to his posthumously published, Pulitzer Prize-winning book, ""A Death in the Family"" (1957), Barber paints an idyllic, nostalgic picture of Agee's native Knoxville, Tennessee. The preamble is a simple, dreamlike depiction of an evening in the American South, narrated by a child who seems, at times, to transform into an adult. It is difficult to tell at times the identity of the speaker, enhancing the dreamlike quality of the work. ""Knoxville"" is set in one movement, and the composer describes it as ""lyric rhapsody"" . Barber's choice to"
"Charles Warren (U.S. author) Charles Warren (March 9, 1868 – August 16, 1954) was an American lawyer and legal scholar who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book ""The Supreme Court in United States History"" (1922). Warren was born in Boston, Massachusetts, a great-great-grandson of Mercy Otis Warren and the son of lawyer Winslow Warren (collector of the Port of Boston) and Mary Lincoln Tinkham. The family moved to Dedham, Massachusetts when Charles was three, where his biographer notes the family ""remained active and loyal Democrats in a bastion of Republicanism."" Following family tradition, he attended Harvard University, receiving an"
"Margaret Leech Margaret Kernochan Leech (November 7, 1893 – February 24, 1974), also known as Margaret Pulitzer, was an American historian and fiction writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History both in 1942 (""Reveille in Washington"", Harper) (first woman to win for history) and in 1960 (""In the Days of McKinley"", Harper). She was born in Newburgh, New York, obtained a B.A. from Vassar College in 1915, and worked for fund-raising organizations during World War I, including the American Committee for Devastated France. She started her writing career for the Condé Nast publishing company before World War I. Leech"
"Miriam Allen deFord Miriam Allen deFord (August 21, 1888 – February 22, 1975) was an American writer best known for her mysteries and science fiction. During the 1920s, she wrote for a number of left-wing magazines including The Masses, The Liberator, and the Federated Press. Her short story ""A Death in the Family"" appeared on Night Gallery's ""second season ""appearing in Episode Two segment One with Desi Arnez Jr. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she worked as a newspaper reporter for a time and, in the early 1900s, was also a campaigner and disseminator of birth control information to women. Her"
"Ernest Poole Ernest Cook Poole (January 23, 1880 – January 10, 1950) was an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. Poole is best remembered for his sympathetic first-hand reportage of revolutionary Russia during and immediately after the Revolution of 1905 and Revolution of 1917 and as a popular writer of proletarian-tinged fiction during the era of World War I and the 1920s. Poole was the winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, awarded in 1918 for his book, ""His Family."" Ernest Cook Poole was born in Chicago, Illinois, on January 23, 1880, to Abram Poole and Mary Howe Poole. His"
"Will Durant William James ""Will"" Durant (; November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was an American writer, historian, and philosopher. He became best known for his work ""The Story of Civilization"", 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife, Ariel Durant, and published between 1935 and 1975. He was earlier noted for ""The Story of Philosophy"" (1926), described as ""a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy"". He conceived of philosophy as total perspective or seeing things ""sub specie totius"" (a phrase inspired by Spinoza's ""sub specie aeternitatis""). He sought to unify and humanize the great body of historical"
"co-authored works about mobilization. After the war, in common with tens of thousands of Americans he moved to Paris and lived there for some years, a period which he details in his book ""Paris On Parade"" Wilson died shortly after receiving the 1942 Pulitzer Prize. Forrest Wilson Robert Forrest Wilson (January 20, 1883 in Warren, Ohio – May 9, 1942 in Weston, Connecticut) was an American author and journalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1942 for his biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe, ""Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe"" (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1941). Wilson"
"differences that made them grow. Ariel Durant Ariel Durant (; 10 May 1898 – 25 October 1981) was a Russian-born American researcher and writer. She was the coauthor of ""The Story of Civilization"" with her husband Will Durant. They were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Born in Proskurov, Russian Empire (now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine) as Chaya (Ida) Kaufman to Jewish parents Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman. The family emigrated in 1900, lived for several months in London 1900-01 en route to the United States, where they arrived in 1901. She had three older sisters, Sarah, Mary, and Flora,"
"In Cold Blood In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966; it details the 1959 murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. When Capote learned of the quadruple murder, before the killers were captured, he decided to travel to Kansas and write about the crime. He was accompanied by his childhood friend and fellow author Harper Lee, and together they interviewed local residents and investigators assigned to the case and took thousands of pages of notes. The killers, Richard ""Dick"" Hickock and"
"cultural references to Baldwin, 30 years after his death, and concluded: ""So Baldwin is not just a writer for the ages, but a scribe whose work—as squarely as George Orwell's—speaks directly to ours."" Together with others: James Baldwin James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist and social critic. His essays, as collected in ""Notes of a Native Son"" (1955), explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. Some of Baldwin's essays are book-length, including ""The Fire Next Time"" (1963), ""No Name in the Street"" (1972),"
"Association, increased efforts to protect its historical resources. Author James Agee (1909–1955) spent his early childhood in the Fort Sanders neighborhood. The Agees initially lived at 1505 Highland Avenue (the house is no longer standing), but moved to Laurel Avenue after the death of Agee's father in 1915. Agee's maternal grandparents, Joel and Emma Tyler, lived on Clinch Avenue. Joel Tyler was a cofounder of the mill machinery company Ty-Sa-Man, where Agee's father worked. The Fort Sanders neighborhood provides the primary setting for Agee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, ""A Death in the Family"". The novel opens with Agee and his father"
"Award is now administered by the Aerospace Industries Association. Lauren ""Deac"" Lyman Lauren Dwight ""Deac"" Lyman (April 24, 1891–July 12, 1972) was an American reporter and aviation writer. He worked for ""The New York Times"" from 1919 to 1937 and from 1937 to 1959 as a public relations executive for United Aircraft, a predecessor to United Technologies Corporation. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1936 for ""his exclusive story revealing that the Charles A. Lindbergh family was leaving the United States to live in England."" Born Lauren Dwight Lyman on a farm in Easthampton, Massachusetts, he was known all his"
"included some of Knoxville's leading industrialists and politicians, as well as professors from the University of Tennessee. Fort Sanders was the childhood home of author James Agee, and provided the setting for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, ""A Death in the Family"". A ten-fold expansion of U.T.'s student body after World War II brought about the need for student housing, and many of the old homes in Fort Sanders have since been converted into apartments. Fort Sanders and the University of Tennessee campus straddle a hill that is bounded by Second Creek on the east, Third Creek on the west, the"
"he completed his first book of poetry, ""Family Album (A Collection of Poetry)"" for Running Board Press. It was a finalist in the 1997 Oklahoma Book Awards. The collection contained fifteen poems, but one poem from the book, ""August: Osage County,"" has achieved both national and international prominence because of Tracy Letts' . Letts' drama won the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for best play of 2008. After his death a tribute to Starks was part of Southeastern’s year-long commemoration of the university's centennial. Howard Starks Howard Vernon Starks (December 7, 1929-April 7, 2003) was an American poet from"
"Forrest Wilson Robert Forrest Wilson (January 20, 1883 in Warren, Ohio – May 9, 1942 in Weston, Connecticut) was an American author and journalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1942 for his biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe, ""Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe"" (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1941). Wilson was born in Warren, Ohio. During the First World War he served as a captain with the US Army Chemical Warfare Service, and later (1923-1927) as Assistant Secretary of War charged with gathering historical data on the conflict, much of formed the basis of several"
"John Hemingway John Patrick Hemingway (born August 19, 1960) is a Canadian-American author, whose memoir ""Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir"" examines the similarities and the complex relationship between his father Gregory Hemingway and his grandfather, the Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway; in particular it addresses the issue of his father's cross-dressing and sex reassignment and its connection to Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway moved to Milan, Italy in 1983, where he pursued a writing and translating career. His articles have appeared in several Italian newspapers such as ""l'Unità"" and ""Libero"", and in American magazines and literary journals. Hemingway is currently working on a"
"Back of the Book"" (1924), ""Tin Wedding"" (1926), and ""The Feathered Nest"" (1928) and, in 1927, co-wrote a biography of Anthony Comstock with Heywood Broun. Leech died of a stroke in New York City at age 80. Margaret Leech Margaret Kernochan Leech (November 7, 1893 – February 24, 1974), also known as Margaret Pulitzer, was an American historian and fiction writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History both in 1942 (""Reveille in Washington"", Harper) (first woman to win for history) and in 1960 (""In the Days of McKinley"", Harper). She was born in Newburgh, New York, obtained a B.A."
"James Baldwin James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist and social critic. His essays, as collected in ""Notes of a Native Son"" (1955), explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. Some of Baldwin's essays are book-length, including ""The Fire Next Time"" (1963), ""No Name in the Street"" (1972), and ""The Devil Finds Work"" (1976). An unfinished manuscript, ""Remember This House"", was expanded and adapted for cinema as the Academy Award–nominated documentary film ""I Am Not Your Negro"". Baldwin's novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal"