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'Death in the Family' author remembered
Wednesday, April 11, 2001
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A half century after his death, writer James Agee will be remembered with a small park in the neighborhood where he grew up and set his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "A Death in the Family."
"He's one of the great writers of the 20th century," said singer-songwriter R.B. Morris, who is championing the project. "The park will be a fitting memorial to Agee because ‘A Death in the Family' celebrates Knoxville."
The University of Tennessee plans to donate land in the Fort Sanders neighborhood for the James Agee Memorial Park, and the city of Knoxville proposes to maintain it.
Morris said a fund-raising drive will begin soon.
Born in Knoxville in 1909, Agee grew up a block away from the park's site. He died of a heart attack in 1955 at the age of 45. "A Death in the Family," about a family's reactions to the accidental death of the father, was published in 1957 and won the Pulitzer the following year.
University of Tennessee writer-in-residence Brian Griffin said Agee has a unique position as a literary figure because he crosses genres.
"He was involved in journalism, fiction, poetry, screenwriting," Griffin said. "The guy did a little of everything, and he did it well. He died full of promise."
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