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==Biography==
 
==Biography==
 
Agee was born in [[Knoxville, Tennessee]] at Highland Avenue and 15th Street (renamed James Agee Street in 1999) to Hugh James Agee and Laura Whitman Tyler, and had distant French and English ancestry on his father's side. When Agee was six, his father died in an automobile accident, and from the age of seven he and his younger sister, Emma, were educated in boarding schools.  
 
Agee was born in [[Knoxville, Tennessee]] at Highland Avenue and 15th Street (renamed James Agee Street in 1999) to Hugh James Agee and Laura Whitman Tyler, and had distant French and English ancestry on his father's side. When Agee was six, his father died in an automobile accident, and from the age of seven he and his younger sister, Emma, were educated in boarding schools.  
[[Image:Ageetofrfly-2.jpg|right|thumb|Letters to Father Fly by J. Agee]]
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[[Image:Ageetofrfly-2.jpg|right|thumb|Letters to [[Father Fly]] by J. Agee]]
 
The most influential of these was located near his mother's summer cottage two miles from Sewanee, Tennessee. [[Saint Andrews-Sewanee School|Saint Andrews School for Mountain Boys]] was run by Episcopal monks affiliated with the Order of the Holy Cross), and it was there that Agee's lifelong friendship with an Episcopal priest, Father James Harold Flye, began in 1919. As Agee's close friend and spiritual confidant, Flye was the recipient of many of Agee's most revealing letters.  
 
The most influential of these was located near his mother's summer cottage two miles from Sewanee, Tennessee. [[Saint Andrews-Sewanee School|Saint Andrews School for Mountain Boys]] was run by Episcopal monks affiliated with the Order of the Holy Cross), and it was there that Agee's lifelong friendship with an Episcopal priest, Father James Harold Flye, began in 1919. As Agee's close friend and spiritual confidant, Flye was the recipient of many of Agee's most revealing letters.