Agee at 100: Centennial Essays on the Works of James Agee

Acknowledgments

aCknowledgments I wish to thank all those who helped bring the James Agee Centennial Celebration to fruition and directly and indirectly gave impetus to the creation of this volume. In addition to the authors/speakers noted in the preface , David Auburn, C. Randall DeFord, R. B. Morris, Jack Neely, Joshua Robbins, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Ross Spears, and Bradley Reeves and Louisa Trott of the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound (TAMIS) all provided invaluable and entertaining presentations. I also wish to thank the trustees of the Better English Fund established by the late Dr. John C. Hodges of the Department of English, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Haines-Morris Endowment, the Special Collections Library, and Dr. Lynn J. Champion and Dr. Charles J. Maland, all of the University of Tennessee ; the Knox County Public Library; the East Tennessee History Center ; the Knoxville Museum of Art; Lincoln Memorial University; Jubilee Community Arts and Laurel Theater; the City of Knoxville, James Agee Park, and Fort Sanders Neighborhood Association; and TAMIS for their unstinting support. Paul Sprecher, the trustee of The James Agee Trust, kindly granted the permissions necessary to reproduce the Agee materials treated by the authors and encouraged an unrestricted evaluation of Agee’s work. D. Strong Wyman, of Special Collections of the University of Tennessee Libraries, shared his knowledge of the archive’s holdings of Agee’s manuscripts with many of the authors. And finally, I thank my wife Nancy for the constant support which allowed me both to chair the centennial and to produce this volume. This page intentionally left blank. ...