Autobiography novels list

A Death in the Family

novel by James Agee

This article is about the James Agee novel. For the Batman storyline, see A Death in the Family (comics).

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A Death in the Family is an autobiographical novel by James Agee. It was based on events which occurred to Agee in , when his father went out of town to see his own father, who had suffered a heart attack. During the return trip, Agee's father was killed in a car crash.

Premise

The novel provides a portrait of life in Knoxville, Tennessee, showing how such a loss affects the young widow, her two children, her atheist father and the deceased alcoholic brother.

Background

Agee commenced work on the novel in It was still incomplete at the time of his death in Reputedly, many portions had been written in the home of his friend Frances Wickes.^[1]

Publication

It was edited and released posthumously in by editor David McDowell.

Agee's widow and children were left with little money after Agee's death and McDowell wanted to help them by publishing the work.

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Earlier draft

University of Tennessee professor Michael Lofaro maintains that the novel as published in was not the version intended for print by the author. Lofaro discussed his work at a conference that was part of the Knoxville James Agee Celebration (April ). Having tracked down the author's original manuscripts and notes, Lofaro reconstructed a version he considers more authentic.

This version, entitled A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author's Text, was published in as part of the volume set The Collected Works of James Agee (University of Tennessee Press).

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Lofaro is also the author of Agee Agonistes: Essays on the Life, Legend, and Works of James Agee ().

According to Lofaro, McDowell's alterations include:

The removal of the original opening, a nightmare scene, and its substitution with "Knoxville: Summer of ," a previously published short work of Agee's that was not intended as part of the novel.
A reordering of the presentation of events, which were originally shown in chronological order.
Chapters were removed.
Chapters were divided.
Certain chapters were moved and presented as flashbacks.
The number of chapters was changed from forty-four short chapters to twenty.

Critical reception and awards

Agee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in for the novel.

The novel was included on Time's List of the Best Novels released between and ^[2]

Adaptations

The novel was adapted into All the Way Home by Tad Mosel. The play won a Pulitzer Prize.

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A film entitled All The Way Home (), adapted by Philip H. Reisman, Jr. from the Agee novel and the Mosel play, was filmed in the same Knoxville neighborhood where Agee grew up.

A TV-movie presentation of All the Way Home, starring Joanne Woodward and Richard Kiley aired on NBC in as a presentation of the Hallmark Hall of Fame.

A live version of the play aired on television in starring Sally Field and William Hurt. It was broadcast live on NBC from the Bing Theatre on the campus of the University of Southern California.

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A TV movie adaptation filmed in Tennessee and starring Annabeth Gish, aired on PBS in ^[3]

Samuel Barber wrote Knoxville: Summer of (, revised ) on commission from the American sopranoEleanor Steber, who had asked for a work for soprano with orchestra.

William Mayer wrote an opera based on the novel; it premiered in ^[4]

A stage musical debuted in titled Knoxville, written Frank Galati with music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens.

A "universal coming-of-age story about family, faith and love—and the boy who will grow up to write it. With a sweeping musical score blending folk, bluegrass and ballads." Knoxville was in rehearsals for its world premiere at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in but was forced to stop because of the pandemic. The show had its world premiere in ^[5]