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Letters Of James Agee To Father Flye – James Agee (1909-1955) was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He graduated from Harvard in 1932 and was employed as a staff writer at Henry Luce’s Fortune magazine. His collection of poetry, Permit Me Voyage, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition and was published in 1934. Although he hoped to devote himself full-time to poetry and fiction, Agee would remain a Time, Inc., writer for fourteen years. , earning high praise from Luce himself, who considered Agee’s Fortune essay on the Tennessee Valley Authority to be the best the magazine had ever published. (For his part, Agee fantasized about shooting Luce.) His book about Alabama farmers during the Depression, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a collaboration with the photographer Walker Evans, appeared in 1941. The book was a commercial and critical failure, selling only six hundred copies. in its first year of publication. Agee was later famous for his film criticism, which appeared regularly in The Nation and Time. He co-wrote the films for The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter, as well as a film for Charlie Chaplin, although it was never produced. Agee died of a heart attack in a New York taxi at forty-five. Two years later, his novel, A Death in the Family, was published and won the Pulitzer Prize. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was reissued in 1960 and hailed, upon its reissue, as an American classic. In 2013, Cotton Tenants: Three Families, a recovered magazine article about the Alabama tenant families, was published to critical acclaim. James Harold Flye (1884-1985) was an Episcopal priest and teacher. He spent thirty-six years at St. Andrew’s School in Tennessee, and later served as pastor at St. Luke’s in New York. Robert Phelps (1922–1989) was an editor, author, and translator. He was a co-founder of Grove Press and edited works by Colette and Jean Cocteau.

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Letters Of James Agee To Father Flye

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Be a reminder to all who dream of becoming a writer that stringing sentences together is a brutal way to make a living. Writing may sound sexy, but Agee’s candid correspondence with Father James Harold Flye shows that the life of a writer, even a great writer, is rarely glamorous and too often grinding.

In 200 scathingly honest pages, Agee, who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for his posthumously published novel,

, grows from a curious schoolboy into a vulnerable writer. As he strives for literary greatness, Agee openly struggles with depression and a litany of professional failures.

Letters Of James Agee To Father Flye

Far from being sweet, however, Agee’s letters provide a kind of ulterior motive to the young writer. Here is a portrait of a man once described as the most talented writer of his generation, as he strives to live up to his own expectations. Finally, Agee proves that a happy writer (which he was not) is the one who finds pleasure in the process of writing, not the result.

In ‘letters Of James Agee To Father Flye,’ A Writer Talks His Tough Trade

First published in 1962, this collection of letters is also a story of friendship. Flye begins as Agee’s history teacher at an Episcopal boarding school in Tennessee, but, over the years, he becomes a trusted friend and confidant. The maturing of their relationship proves a counterweight to Agee’s self-doubt. While Flye is rarely heard from in the book, his reassuring presence is felt throughout as Agee responds, often point by point, to his friend’s letters.

, Agee has been classified as a writer who failed to live up to his great potential. As Robert Phelps writes in the book’s introduction, Agee was once seen as an artist in the making who “mortgaged his birthright” by writing anonymous stories for “large-circulation magazines.” He reported for

, would not be recognized until after he died of a heart attack in a New York taxi at the age of 45.

Reminds us how unfair it is to label Agee as simply an anonymous magazine reporter and late-in-life screenwriter. Throughout the book, Agee impresses upon Flye the seriousness with which he takes his vocation. “I would do anything on earth to become a really great writer,” 21-year-old Agee writes. “That is as sincere a thing as I ever said.” He then spends the next 24 years making his mind “as wide and deep and rich as possible” by devouring books and writing, always writing.

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It would be hard to find a more honest account of the pressures of a writer’s life. Agee has no airs, writing intimately about his fears and doubts, even delving into thoughts of suicide. His portrait on the book’s cover—two pensive eyes peering out from a face in need of a shave—seems a perfect representation of that brutal honesty. As if Agee dares the reader to pick up writing where he left off. no longer supports older versions of your browser to ensure user data remains secure. Please update to the latest version.

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Title/Info: Letters from James Agee to Father Flye 1963 1960s Vintage Mass Market Paperback Book. Bantam Seventy-Five. Pocket book. 217 pages.

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