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It was edited and published two years later, and won Agee a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1958.

A Death in the Family by James Agee When Agee died from a heart attack in 1955, the novel was not quite finished.

Maybe a gentler way to say the same thing is that Agee fails almost completely as a conventional magazine writer.

Coincidentally, Christenberry was born the same year Agee and Evans made their trip to Alabama.