Agee, James(James Rufus Agee)

1909 - Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on November 27, 1909.

1916 - Educated at a boarding school, Saint Andrews School for Mountain Boys.

1924-1925 - Attended Knoxville High School for a year and went to travel with Father Flye to Europe.

1928 - Entered Philips Exeter Academy where he was the president of The Lantern Club and became the editor of Monthly were he published his writings.

1932 - Admitted at Harvard University despite barely passing many of his secondary courses. Became the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Advocate.

1933 - Married Via Saunders on January 28, 1933.

1934 - Published his first volume of poetry titled "Permit Me Voyage".

1936 - Worked at Fortune magazine together with photographer Walker Evans.

1938 - Married Alma Mailman after he divorced Saunders.

1942 - Worked for Time magazine as a film critic while writing occasional book reviews. Became a film critic for The Nation Magazine.

1946 - Married Mia Fritsch and lived at Greenwich Village.

1948 - Quit both magazines to become a freelance writer and continued writing magazine articles while writing scripts for the movies.

1951 - Suffered two heart attacks which affected his life.

1955 - He died on May 16, 1955, the same day his father died.

1957 - Won the Pulitzer Price for his autobiographical novel titled "A Death in the Family".

• "You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough."
• "Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense."
• "A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children."
• "In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God."