James Agee-David McDowell Papers, 1909-1985.

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James Agee-David McDowell Papers, 1909-1985.

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Papers of James Agee and his friend and publisher David McDowell. Included are three spiral notebooks with diary style entries and personal notes. Also included are two unpublished chapters of A death in the family, Agee's Pulitzer Prize winning work in 1955. The third part of the Agee material is notes, typescripts of the epic poem John Carter and several published and unpublished poems. McDowell's papers in the collection concern mostly his publishing firm of McDowell, Obolensky, Inc. and his financial problems in his later years. Among people represented in correspondence files are Walker Evans, Richard M. Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower, William F. Buckley, Jr., David Madden, Mario Puzo and Gloria Vanderbilt.

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University of Tennessee, John C. Hodges Library

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University of Tennessee, John C. Hodges Library

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