Death in the family

Author's name: James Agee

Here we tell you about my summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, when I lived there, most artfully disguised, in a child's clothing. Published two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and more than sixty years later, it remains a literary masterpiece, an autobiographical novel that captures the tragedy of losing a father like no other. Guy Follett, in a hurry to return home to Knoxville, Tennessee, is killed in a car accident—a tragedy that not only ends a single life, but also destroys the family's happiness and warm love. A novel that carries at its heart courage, the power of a poem, and overwhelming emotion; a novel that is an icon of American literature.