James Agee

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James Agee was an American writer, film critic, and screenwriter best known for his lyrical prose, influential criticism, and posthumously awarded Pulitzer Prize for his novel "A Death in the Family."

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James Agee canonical 8

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Predicate Object
instanceOf essayist
film critic
human
journalist
novelist
poet
screenwriter
writer
awardReceived Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
burialPlace Mount Hebron Cemetery, Montclair, New Jersey, United States
causeOfDeath heart attack
collaboratedWith Walker Evans
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1909-11-27
dateOfDeath 1955-05-16
educatedAt Harvard University
Phillips Exeter Academy
employer The Nation
Time magazine
familyName Agee
genre fiction
film criticism
nonfiction
poetry
givenName James
hasChild Andrea Agee
Joel Agee
John Agee
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement modernism
name James Agee self-link
nationality American
notableFor influential film criticism
lyrical prose
notableWork A Death in the Family
Agee on Film
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans)
surface form: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

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The Morning Watch
occupation essayist
film critic
journalist
novelist
poet
screenwriter
writer
placeOfBirth Knoxville, Tennessee
surface form: Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
placeOfDeath New York City
surface form: New York City, New York, United States
posthumousAward Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
surface form: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "A Death in the Family"
religion Episcopalian
sexOrGender male
spouse Alma Mailman
Mia Fritsch
Olivia Saunders
subjectOf biographical and critical studies in American literature and film criticism
work A Death in the Family
Agee on Film
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans)
surface form: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Permit Me Voyage
The Morning Watch
wroteAbout American sharecroppers in the Great Depression
wroteScreenplayFor The African Queen
The Night of the Hunter

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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

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- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: James Agee
Description of subject: James Agee was an American writer, film critic, and screenwriter best known for his lyrical prose, influential criticism, and posthumously awarded Pulitzer Prize for his novel "A Death in the Family."

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