Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction (The Library of America 159)

818 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of two novels, a novella, and three short stories by the American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, with chronology and notes following text. Also included are reproductions of the photographs from Let Us Know Praise Famous Men, depicting the impoverished sharecropping families with whom Agee lived while writing the work. Includes: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; The Morning Watch; A Death in the Family; Death in the Desert; They That Sow in Sorrow Shall Reap; A Mother's Tale. This edition is part of the Library of America series, published by a non-profit organization whose goal is to keep classic works of American literature and history in print as a way of preserving cultural heritage.