According to Laurence Bergreen and Richard Schramm, the work of James Agee represents one of the unfulfilled promises of 20th-century American literature. His personal life provides an extreme example of self-destruction in a literary artist. The death of his father when Agee was six years old haunted his life, providing the impetus for much of his writing but underscoring in Agee himself a rootlessness that led to alcoholism and a complicated marital life.
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