Birthday of James Agee (American writer - journalist)

from Writer's Almanac (American Public Media: Garrison Keillor):

November 27 is the birthday of writer James Agee, born in Knoxville, Tennessee (1909). 

He is best remembered for his autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), 

and his account of Southern sharecroppers during the Dust Bowl, 

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). 

But during his life, he was best known as a film critic. 

He worked for Time and then for The Nation. 

The poet W.H. Auden declared that Agee's weekly film column i

n The Nation was "the most remarkable regular event in American 

journalism today."  

He is also known as the screenwriter who adapted for 

Director John Huston The African Queen (famous feature film 

with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn)

in 1951.