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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a book with text by American writer James Agee and photographs by American photographer Walker Evans, first published in 1941 in the United States. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men grew out of an assignment the two men accepted in 1936 to produce a Fortune magazine article on the conditions among sharecropper families in the American South during the "Dust Bowl".
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- Author
- James Agee, Walker Evans
- First published
- 1941
- Pages
- 471
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Co., Panther, Violette Editions
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780330302852
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James Rufus Agee was an American author, 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 Pulitzer Prize. Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Agee
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