Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - Hardcover

Agee, James; Evans, Walker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395957710 ISBN 13: 9780395957714

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 2000

Synopsis

A new edition of the classic Depression-era photojournal of life as a southern sharecropper follows three Alabama families as they sc*a living from the land. Reissue.

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: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0395957710
• ISBN 13: 9780395957714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 427