According to Laurence Bergreen and Richard Schramm, the work of James Agee represents one of the unfulfilled promises of twentieth-century American literature. They approach Agee as a quintessential southern writer who represents the tensions of the southern literary renaissance.
The literary biographer Bergreen wrote James Agee: A Life. Schramm was executive associate at the National Humanities Center.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
