Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - Softcover

Agee, James; Walker, Evans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345276965 ISBN 13: 9780345276964

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1974

Synopsis

An illustrated portrayal of three Alabama sharecropper families in 1936, examining their everyday existence in poverty

About this title

About the Author:

JAMES AGEE (1909-1955), a poet, screenwriter, and journalist, won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel A Death in the Family. His other books include a volume of poems, Permit me Voyage, the novel The Morning Watch, and several collections of correspondence, reviews and film scripts.
WALKER EVANS (1903-1975) is best known for his striking Depression-era photographs. He served as an editor for both Fortune and Time and was a professor of graphic arts at Yale.

Blake Morrison was born in Skipton, Yorkshire, in 1950.His non-fiction books include And When Did You Last See Your Father? (1993), As If (1997), Too True (1998), Things My Mother Never Told Me (2002). His first novel, The Justification of Johann Gutenberg was published in 2000. Blake Morrison lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0345276965
• ISBN 13: 9780345276964
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback