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His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Agee is also known as a co-writer of the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and as the screenwriter of the film classics The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter.
Photography: William C. Beall of The Washington Daily News , for his photograph Faith and Confidence , showing policeman Maurice Cullinane patiently reasoning with a two-year-old boy trying to cross a street during a parade.
1958 Prizewinners and finalists, including bios, photos, jurors and work by winners and finalists
Brian Lanker’s photo essay went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. The centerpiece of the essay was the “Moment of Life” photograph above showing a joyful Lynda Coburn and her newly born baby with umbilical cord still intact.
The 1958 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction For distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Five hundred dollars ($500). A Death In The Family , by James Agee (McDowell, Obolensky)
James Agee won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for A Death In The Family in 1958. Agee began writing the novel in 1948, but it remained unfinished when he died in 1955.
1958 Pulitzer Prize for Photography Courtesy Scripps Howard News Service "Faith and Confidence": A policeman speaks to a young boy at a parade in Washington, D.C.
