Early life and education James Agee



james agee park in fort sanders neighborhood of knoxville, tennessee – agee s childhood home , setting novel death in family.


agee s mother married st. andrew s bursar father erskine wright in 1924, , 2 moved rockland, maine. agee went knoxville high school 1924–1925 school year, traveled father flye europe in summer, when agee sixteen. on return, agee transferred boarding school in new hampshire, entering class of 1928 @ phillips exeter academy. after, began correspondence dwight macdonald.


at phillips exeter, agee president of lantern club , editor of monthly first short stories, plays, poetry , articles published. despite barely passing many of high school courses, agee admitted harvard university s class of 1932. there agee took classes taught robert hillyer , i. a. richards; classmate in future poet , critic robert fitzgerald, whom work @ time. agee editor-in-chief of harvard advocate , delivered class ode @ commencement.








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