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A James Agee Bibliography
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:

Poetry and Songs
Short Pieces and Journalism
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
     A Death in the Family
Films and Plays
Letters
     Published and Unpublished Manuscripts
Commentary on Agee's Work
The James Agee Celebration


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


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