In 1932, he was hired as editor of Fortune magazine. Two years later, her poetry collection, Me Voyage, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets. But Agee is primarily known for his book Let's Praise Famous Men (1941), on Alabama sharecroppers during the Great Depression; for his film reviews, which regularly appeared on The Nation and The Time; and for his scripts of The African Queen and The Hunter's Night. He died two years before his great work of fiction, A Death in the Family (1957), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, was published.