A Death in a Family (English)

A Death in the Family” is a novel by the American author James Agee. The novel was written by Agee as a semi-autobiographical piece in the late 1940’s through early 1950’s and was not quite finished when he died in 1955. It was published posthumously by his family two years later. In 1958, Agee was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel. It has since been adapted into a Pulitzer Prize winning play in 1961 and two different feature films.