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September 23, 2010 02:12:41 PM

Your American Icon:

James Agee

Location:

NYC/Knoxville, TN

Why is this work an American Icon?:

rarely does a writer so brilliantly describe the South...between A Death in the Family and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Agee captured the beauty and the despair of the South. In addition, this writer of The African Queen deserves the recognition of an American Icon.

First name:

Lauren

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