A Death in the FamilyBy: James Agee The classic American novelwinner of the 1958 Pulitzer Prizenow re published for the 100th anniversary of James Agees birth One of Times All Time 100 Best Novels A Penguin Classic Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty five, A Death in the Family remains a near perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet