This bibliography details the Special
Collections Library's extensive holdings of both James Agee's original works
and secondary analyses and commentaries on these works. In order to minimize
confusion, it has been divided into eight sections:
Within these sections, materials are organized first alphabetically and then chronologically.
For more information about any of these items, please contact the
Special Collections Library.
Poetry and Songs
Agee, James. “Anne Garner.” In The Hound and Horn: A Harvard Miscellany
2:3 (Spring 1929): 223-235.
PS3501.G35 A55 1929
---. Permit Me Voyage. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1934.
PS3501.G35 P4 1934
---. "Summer Evening". In Harper's Magazine 176:1502 (January
1938): 205.
PS3501.G35 S86 1938
---. The Morning Watch. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, c1950.
PS3501.G35 M6 1950
---. The Morning Watch. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1951.
PS3501.G35 M6 1951
---. Lines Suggested by a Tennessee Song. [S.l. : s.n.] [1984]
PS3501 .G35 L56 1984
Barber, Samuel. Sure on this Shining Night [words by James Agee]. New
York : Schirmer, c1941.
M1621 .B23 S8 1941
Morris, R.B. Littoral Zone. [Knoxville, Tennessee]: Rich Mountain Bound, 2004.
PS3563 .O874468 L58 2004
Short Pieces and Journalism
Agee, James. "The House." In New Letters in America (volume
1), 37-55. New York: W.W. Norton and Co, n.d.
PS 536.N38
---. "A Mother's Tale." In Encounters: An Anthology from the
First Ten Years of Encounter Magazine, edited by Stephen Spender, Irving
Kristol, and Melvin J. Lasky. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1963.
PR1149.E55
---. The Collected Poems of James Agee. Boston, Houghton Mifflin,
1968.
PS3501.G35 A17 1968
---. "Among the Sounds of Night." Illus. Wright Morris. In Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition
11:3 (August 1986): 62-67.
PS3501.G35 D433 1986
---. "America, Look at your Shame!" In The Oxford American
43 (Jan.-Feb. 2003): 35-39.
PS3501.G35A44 2003
Ashdown, Paul, ed. James Agee, Selected Journalism. Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press, c2005.
PS3501.G35 A6 2005d
Ashdown, Paul, ed. Selected Journalism [of James Agee]. Knoxville :
University of Tennessee Press, c1985.
PS3501.G35 A6 1985
Brooks-Bright Foundation. Brooks-Bryce Anglo-American Prize Essays.
New York City, The Brooks-Bryce Foundation incorporated [1927]
HF1455 .B7
Evans, Walker [introduction by James Agee]. Many Are Called. New Haven
: Yale University Press ; New York : In association with the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, c2004.
TR680 .E93 2004
Fitzgerald, Robert ed. The Collected Short Prose of James Agee. Boston,
Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
PS3501 .G35 A15 1968
Fitzgerald, Robert. The Collected Poems of James Agee. London : Calder
and Boyars, 1972.
PS3501 .G35 A17 1972
---. The Collected Short Prose of James Agee. London : Calder and Boyars,
1972.
PS3501 .G35 A15 1972
Forkner, Ben and Patrick Samway. Stories of the modern South. New York: Bantom Books,
1978.
PS551 .S86 1978a
---. Stories of the modern South. New York: Penguin Books,
1986.
PS551 .S86 1986
Gold, Herbert and David L. Stevenson, eds. Stories of Modern America.
New York, St. Martin's Press [1961]
PS3557 .O34 S86 1961
Harap, Elena, ed. Four Early Stories by James Agee. West Branch [Iowa]
Cummington Press, 1963.
PS3501.G35 F6 1963
Perkins, David, ed. Books of Passage: 27 North Carolina Writers on the Books
that Changed their Lives. Asheboro, N.C.: Down Home Press, c1997.
Z1003.3 .N64 B66 1997
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Agee, James and Walker Evans. "Colon." In New Directions In
Prose & Poetry 1940, edited by James Laughlin. Norfolk, CT: New Directions,
1940.
PS536.N372 1940
---. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston,
Houghton Mifflin company, 1941.
F326 .A17 1941
---. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families. Boston, Houghton
Mifflin [1960]
F326 .A17 1960
---. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families. London, Peter
Owen [1965, c1960]
F326 .A17 1965
---. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families. Boston : Houghton
Mifflin, 1988.
HN79 .A4 A535 1988
---. Laat ons nu vermaarde mannen prijzen. Trans. Frank van Dixhoorn. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1991.
F 326.A1712 1991
---. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction. New York: Library of America, c2005.
PS3501.G35 A6 2005
A Death in the Family
Agee, James. "Knoxville: Summer of 1915." In The Partisan Reader:
Ten Years of Partisan Review, 1934-1944, edited by William Phillips and
Philip Rahv, 28-31. New York: Dial Press, 1946.
PN6014.P25
---. A Death in the Family. New York, McDowell, Obolensky [1957]
PS3501.G35 D4
---. A Death in the Family. New York, Hearst Corp. [c1957]
PS3501.G35 D4 1957
---. A Death in the Family. New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 1957.
PS3501.G35 D4 1957a
---. A Death in the Family. London : Gollanz, 1958, c1957.
PS3501 .G35 D4 1958
---. Knoxville: Summer of 1915. AMS Reprint Co.: New York, NY, 1963.
PS3501.G35.K55
---. A Death in the Family. London : Peter Owen, 1965.
PS3501 .G35 D4 1965
---. Knoxville, summer 1915. [Toronto]: Aliquando Press, 1970.
PS3501 .G35 K56 1970
---. Knoxville Summer Evening. Designed by Christopher Kuntze. Boston: David R. Godine, 1992.
Eph. 1992spa
---. "Knoxville: Summer of 1915." In Knoxville Bound. Knoxville, TN: MetroPulse Pub., Inc., 2004.
PS3501.G35 K55 2004
---. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction. New York: Library of America, c2005.
PS3501.G35 A6 2005
Gregg, M. Unsigned Linoleum Block: We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee:
In the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child. [Jonesborough, Tenn.:
Patchwork Unltd., 1984].
Eph. 1984ag
Films and Plays
Agee, James and John Huston. The African Queen: Screenplay. Hollywood,
Calif. : Horizon Pictures Inc. ; London : In Association with Romulus Films
Ltd., 1951.
PS3501.G35 A37 1951
Agee, James. Agee on Film. Drawings by Tomi Ungerer. New York: McDowell,
Obolensky [1958-60]
PN1993.5.A1 A35
---. Agee on Film: Five Film Scripts. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1964.
PN1993.5.A1 A35 1964
---. Agee on Film. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1969.
PN1993.5 .A1 A35 1969
Cates, Gilbert, director. A Death in the Family. [Hollywood, Calif.]: Paramount
Home Entertainment, [2005]. Videorecording.
PN 1997.D387 2005
Mosel, Tad. All the Way Home: A Play in Three Acts. New York: Ivan Obolensky,
Inc., 1961.
PS3525.O847 A7
---. All the Way Home: A Play in Three Acts. New York: Samuel French,
Inc., 1961.
PS3525.O847A7 1961
Mosel, Tad and Philip Reisman, Jr. All the Way Home: A Play by Tad Mosel
[and] a Screenplay by Philip Reisman, Jr. New York, Avon Books, c1963
PS3525.O847 A7 1963
Reisman, Philip. Jean Simmons and Robert Preston in David Susskind's Production of All The Way Home.
N.p., 196?.
PN1997.A45 R4
White Mane. Los Angeles, CA: Embassy Home Entertainment, c. 1984. Videorecording.
PN1995.9 .F67 C746 1984
James Agee's "Mr. Lincoln" Videotapes and DVDs, 2005
UTK-MS-2832
Letters
Agee, James. Letters of James Agee to Father Flye. New York, G. Braziller,
1962.
PS3501.G35 Z54 1962
---. Letters of James Agee to Father Flye. New York, Bantam Books [1963]
PS3501.G35 Z54 1963
---. Letters of James Agee to Father Flye. London, Peter Owen [1964]
PS3501 .G35 Z54 1964
---. Last Letter of James Agee to Father Flye. Boston, Godine, 1969.
PS3501.G35 Z54 1969
Published and Unpublished Manuscripts
Agee, James. Notes.
UTK-MS-1904
James Agee-David McDowell Papers, 1909-1985.
UTK- MS-1500
Kramer, Victor A, ed. Agee: Selected Literary Documents. Troy, N.Y.
: Whitston Pub. Co., 1996.
PS3501.G35 A6 1996
Lofaro, Michael A. and Hugh Davis, eds. James Agee: Literary Notebooks and
Other Manuscripts. Ridgewood, NJ : James Agee Press, c. 2002.
PS3501 .G35 A6 2002
---. James Agee Rediscovered: The Journals of "Let Us Now Praise
Famous Men" and Other New Manuscripts. Knoxville, TN: The University of
Tennessee Press, c. 2005
PS3501 .G35 A6 2005
Wright, Laura Whitman. Letter, dated 27 May 1955, to David and Madeline McDowell.
UTK-MS-2092
Commentary on James Agee’s Work
1932 Senior Album Committee ..., eds. Harvard class album, 1932. Cambridge
: University Press, 1932.
LD2180 .H23 1932
Agee, Joel. In the House of My Fear. Washington, DC: Shoemaker Hoard Publishers, c. 2004.
CT275.A444A3 2004
The Agee Legacy: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. [S.l. : s.n.], 1989
PS3501.G35 Z56 1989
Agee, Purl Myrtillo. A Record of the Agee Family. Salem, MA: Higginson Book Co.,
[2003].
CS71 .A24 1937a
Ashdown, Paul. "James Agee". In A Sourcebook of American Literary
Journalism: Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre, 197-204. New
York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
PS366.R44 S68 1992
Augspurger, Michael. An Economy of Abundant Beauty: Fortune Magazine and Depression
America. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2004.
PN4900 .F67 A97 2004
Böger, Astrid. Documenting Lives : James Agee's and Walker Evans's
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. New York : P. Lang, c1994.
HN79.A4 A535 1994
Chambers, Walter B., Jr. "James Rufus Agee, 1909-1955." In St.
Andrew's Messenger (Spring 1973).
Eph. 1973ag
Coles, Robert. Irony in the Mind's Life: Essays on Novels by James Agee,
Elizabeth Bowen, and George Eliot. Charlottesville, University Press of
Virginia [1974]
PR823 .C58 (On Order)
Collins, Karen Ann. "Agee Remembered, Agee Anew." In The Tennessee Alumnus 85:4 (Fall 2005): 30-31.
PS3501.G35 Z615 2005
Comstock, Tamara. The World is a Ball. Los Angeles, CA: Hermes House, [1973].
PS3553.O4787 W65 1973
Denby, David. "A Famous Man: The Collected Works of James Agee." In The New Yorker 81:43
(January 9, 2006): 82-86.
PS3501.G35 Z617 2006
Doty, Mark Allen. Tell Me Who I Am: James Agee’s Search for Selfhood.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 1981.
PS3501.G35Z62
Evans, Walker. Walker Evans : Photographs from the Let Us Now Praise Famous
Men Project. Austin: University of Texas, 1974.
F326 .A172 1974
Eyster, Warren. Conversations with James Agee. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University, 1981.
PS3501.G35 Z7386 1981
Hambourg, Maria Morris, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Douglas Eklund, and Mia Fineman.
Walker Evans. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with
Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2000.
TR647 .E9 2000
The Harvard Advocate Commemorative to James Agee. Cambridge, Mass.:
The Advocate, 1972.
PS3501.G35 Z67
The Harvard freshman red book. Cambridge, Mass.: Caustic-Claflin Co.
LD2180 .R4
Hughes, William C. James Agee, Omnibus, and Mr. Lincoln : The Culture of
Liberalism and the Challenge of Television, 1952-1953. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow
Press, 2004.
PN1992.8 .L54 H84 2004
Huse, Nancy Lyman. John Hersey and James Agee: A Reference Guide. Boston: G.K. Hall, c. 1978
Z8400.3.H87
Kramer, Victor A. Agee's Skepticism About Art and Audience. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University, 1981.
PS3501.G35 Z7386 1981
Kramer, Victor A. Agee and Actuality: Artistic Vision in his Work.
Troy, NY: Whitston Publishing Co., 1991.
PS3501.G35 Z738 1991
Larsen, Erling. James Agee. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press
[1971]
PS3501 .G35 Z75
Leonard, John. "Journalist, critic, novelist, screenwriter: James Agee died young, but these
volumes from The Library of America remind us how prolific he managed to be." [New York: New
York Times, 2005.]
Eph. 2005jou
Levitt, Helen. A Way of Seeing: Photographs of New York. With an Essay
by James Agee. New York, Viking Press [1965]
TR650 .L45
Lofaro, Michael A., ed. James Agee: Reconsiderations. Knoxville : University
of Tennessee Press, c1992.
PS3501.G35 Z736 1992
---. James Agee : Reconsiderations. Knoxville : University of Tennessee
Press, c1992.
PN35.T4 v.33
---. James Agee : Reconsiderations. Knoxville : University of Tennessee
Press, 1994.
PS3501.G35 Z736 1994
Lofaro, Michael A. and Purcell, Aaron D. "All the Way Home: Collecting the Works and Celebrating the Life of James Agee."
In The Library Development Review, Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee, 2005.
PS3501.G35 G76 2005
Lowe, James. The Creative Process of James Agee. Baton Rouge : Louisiana
State University Press, c1994.
PS3501 .G35 Z77 1994
Madden, David, ed. Remembering James Agee. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State
University Press, [1974]
PS3501.G35 Z78
Madden, David and Jeffrey J. Folks, eds. Remembering James Agee. Athens,
Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c1997.
PS3501.G35 Z78 1997
Maharidge, Dale. And their Children After Them: The Legacy of "Let
Us Now Praise Famous Men":
James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South. New York: Seven Stories
Press, 2004.
F326.A173 M34 2004
Moreau, Genevieve. The Restless Journey of James Agee. Trans. Miriam Kleiger. Advance Proofs
annotated by David Madden. New York: Morrow, 1977.
PS3505.G35 Z786 1977b
Neuman, Alma. Always Straight Ahead. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University
Press, c1993.
CT275.N458 A3 1993
Ohlin, Peter H. Agee. New York, I. Obolensky [1966]
PS3501.G35 Z8 1966
Passaro, Vince. “Reflection in the Rainbow ‘I’: A Sixties
Survivor Goes on a Psychedelic Volyage of Dazzlement and Discovery.” O:
The Oprah Magazine 6.1 (January 2005): 86.
HQ1402.O13 vol. 6 no. 1
Row, Steve. Literary Luminary. Louisville, TN: CityView Pub., 2005.
PS3501.G35 G86 2005
Seib, Kenneth. James Agee: Promise and Fulfillment. [Pittsburgh] University
of Pittsburgh Press [1969, c1968]
PS3501.G35 Z88 1969
Slatoff, Walter Jacob. The Look of Distance: Reflections on Suffering
& Sympathy in Modern Literature -- Auden to Agee, Whitman to Woolf.
Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c. 1985
PR479.S93 S58 1985
Southall, Thomas. Of Time & Place: Walker Evans and William Christenberry.
[San Francisco] : Friends of Photography, c1990.
TR645 .F672 A468 1990
Spears, Ross and Jude Cassidy, eds. Agee: His Life Remembered. New York
: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1985.
PS3501.G35 Z55 1985
Spiegel, Alan. James Agee and the Legend of Himself : a Critical Study.
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c1998.
PS3501 .G35 Z894 1998
Stott, William. Documentary Expression and Thirties America.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.
P92.U5 S75
---. Documentary Expression and Thirties America.
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
P92.U5 S75 1986
Thomas, Martha Skinner. James Agee: A Bio-Bibliography. 1967.
Thesis 67 .R367
Ward, Joseph Anthony. American Silences : the Realism of James Agee, Walker
Evans, and Edward Hopper. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,
c1985.
NX504 .W37 1985
Whitford, David. "The Most Famous Story We Never Told." In Fortune 152:6 (September 19, 2005): 174-186.
F326.A173 W45 2005
Woodiel, Dale Paul. The Comic Element in the Works of James Agee. 1963.
Thesis63.W663
Wranovics, John. Chaplin and Agee: the untold story of the tramp, the writer, and the lost
screenplay. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
PS3501 .G35 Z95 2005
The James Agee Celebration
Aiken, Charles S. James Agee's A Death in the Family: A Walking Tour of the Neighborhood.
[Knoxville, Tenn.]: University of Tennessee, [2005].
Eph. 2005wal
An Evening for James Agee: a downtown fundraiser for James Agee Park fund, Wednesday, April 27th,
7 pm. [Knoxville, Tenn.: s.n., 2005].
Eph. 2005eve
Henderson, Barry. "Let us now Praise James Agee: Our Old Neighbor Offers
a Generous Array of Options for a Festival." In MetroPulse 15:14
(April 7, 2005): 14-26.
xF444.K7M45 vol. 15 no. 14
JA (1909-2005). Knoxville, TN: James Agee Park Steering Committee and East Tennessee Foundation,
2005.
Eph. 2005ja
James Agee Celebration. Ill. David Sprecher.
[Knoxville, Tenn.]: University of Tennessee, [2005]. Color Poster.
Eph. 2005pa
James Agee Celebration, April 2005; Knoxville Tennessee. [Ill. David Sprecher.]
[Knoxville, Tenn.]: University of Tennessee, [2005]. Bookmark.
Eph. 2005jam
James Agee Celebration, April 2005; Knoxville Tennessee. Ill. David Sprecher.
[Knoxville, Tenn.]: University of Tennessee, [2005]. Color Poster.
Eph. 2005cel
James Agee Park, est. [sic] 2003.
[Knoxville, Tenn.: The James Agee Park Steering Committee & East Tennessee Foundation, 2005].
Eph. 2005age
James Agee Park Steering Committee. James Agee Park donor reception and park tour, Tuesday,
October 18, 2005.
[Knoxville, Tenn.:] The James Agee Park Steering Committee & East Tennessee Foundation, [2005].
Eph. 2005par
The Time has come for Knoxville to memorialize one of its favorite sons:
the internationally acclaimed poet, novelist, journalist, and screenwriter,
James Agee. Design and photography by Eric Sublett. Knoxville, TN:
East Tennessee Foundation, [2004].
Eph. 2004ti
The Time has come for Knoxville to memorialize one of its favorite sons:
the internationally acclaimed poet, novelist, journalist, and screenwriter,
James Agee. [Revised] Design and photography by Eric Sublett. Knoxville, TN:
East Tennessee Foundation, [2005].
Eph. 2005ti
University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Council for the Arts.
James Agee Celebration, Knoxville, Tennessee, Spring 2005. Knoxville, TN: The
University of Tennessee Student Activities Office, [2005].
Eph. 2005ag
University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections Library.
James Agee: A Celebration of his work, at Special Collections, Hoskins Library, the
University of Tennessee, April-August, 2005.. [Knoxville, TN]: The
University of Tennessee: University Libraries, [2005].
Eph. 2005spe