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Rose Glen Literary Festival

Sat, Feb 22

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Sevierville Convention Center, Room B

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Rose Glen Literary Festival
Rose Glen Literary Festival

Time & Location

Feb 22, 2020, 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM

Sevierville Convention Center, Room B, 202 Gists Creek Rd, Sevierville, TN 37876, USA

About the event

Rose Glen Literary Festival 2020 Program

One of the most gifted of America’s writers, James Rufus Agee (1909–1955), spent a third of his short life in Tennessee, yet no biographical treatment until this one has so fully explored his roots in the state. In Rufus, Paul F. Brown draws deeply on a trove of journals, letters, interviews, and contemporaneous newspaper accounts, to produce a captivating portrait of Agee’s boyhood.

Brown meticulously delineates Agee’s family history, his earliest years as a sensitive child growing up in Knoxville’s Fort Sanders neighborhood, and the traumatic event that marked his sixth year: his father’s death in an automobile accident. Young Rufus—as his family always called him—revered his father and would use his memories of the tragedy to create his most enduring work of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize–winning A Death in the Family. Just a few years after his father was killed, Agee’s mother placed…

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