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1957 novel by James Agee
the James Agee novel

A Death in the Family is an autobiographical novel by James Agee. It was based on events which occurred to Agee in 1915, when his father went out of town to see his own father, who had suffered a heart attack. During the return trip, Agee's father was killed in a car crash.

The novel provides a portrait of life in Knoxville, Tennessee, showing how such a loss affects the young widow, her two children, her atheist father and the deceased alcoholic brother.

Agee commenced the work in 1948. It was incomplete at the time of his death in 1955. Reputedly, many portions had been written in the home of his friend Frances Wickes. It was edited and released posthumously in 1957 by editor David McDowell. Agee's widow and children were left with little money after Agee's death and McDowell wanted to help them by publishing the work. Agee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958 for the novel. The novel was included on Time 2005 list of the 100 best English language novels written since 1923.

The novel was adapted into All the Way Home by Tad Mosel. The play won a 1961 Pulitzer Prize. A film entitled All The Way Home (1963) was adapted by Philip H. Reisman, Jr. from the Agee novel and the Mosel play. It was filmed in the same Knoxville neighborhood where Agee grew up. A live version of the play aired on television in 1981 starring Sally Field and William Hurt. It was broadcast live on NBC from the Bing Theatre on the campus of the University of Southern California. A TV movie adaptation filmed in Tennessee and starring Annabeth Gish, aired on PBS in 2002. Samuel Barber wrote Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (1947, revised 1950) on commission from the American soprano Eleanor Steber, who had asked for a work for soprano with orchestra. William Mayer wrote an opera based on the novel; it premiered in 1983. A stage musical debuted in 2022 titled Knoxville, written Frank Galati with music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. A "universal coming of age story about family, faith and love—and the boy who will grow up to write it. With a sweeping musical score blending folk, bluegrass and ballads." Knoxville was in rehearsals for its world premiere at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in 2020 but was forced to stop because of the pandemic. The show had its world premiere in 2022.