James Agee’s A Death in the Family was unfinished at the time of his death, but was heavily edited and then published posthumously. It then won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and has become a classic American novel. The plot is highly autobiographical, based on a tragic event in Agee’s own youth. Rufus Follet, a stand-in for Agee, is a six-year–old living in Knoxville, Tennessee in the year 1915. The novel begins, after a lengthy prose poem unconnected to the rest of the story which was […]