Letters of James Agee to Father Flye

',I'll croak before I write ads or sell bondsor do anything except write.'James Agee's father died when he was just six years old, a loss immortalized in his Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, A Death in the Family. Three years later, Agee's mother moved the mourning family from Knoxville, Tennessee, to the campus of St. Andrew's, an Episcopal boarding school near Sewanee. There, Agee met Father James Harold Flye, who would become his history teacher. Though Agee was just ten, the two struck up an un ...