id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7960 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - Wikipedia .html text/html 1397 143 70 Find sources: "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a book with text by American writer James Agee and photographs by American photographer Walker Evans, first published in 1941 in the United States. Walker Evans photograph of three sharecroppers, Frank Tengle, Bud Fields, and Floyd Burroughs, Alabama, Summer 1936 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men grew out of an assignment that Agee and Evans accepted in 1936 to produce a Fortune article on the conditions among sharecropper families in the American South during the "Dust Bowl". Williamson And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of "Let us now praise famous men" : James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South. "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, by James Agee and Walker Evans". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7960.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7960.txt