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April 21, 2005
What an Author Intends
This is an interesting article about the reworking of James Agee's novel, "A Death in the Family." A University of Tennessee professor is re-editing the novel based upon the original notes and handwritten manuscript. The edition published in 1957(which won the Pulitzer in '58) was the editorial vision of an editor who was trying to help out Agee's widow and family. Would Agee's book resemble the one to come out in 2007, or the 1958 version? Probably neither, but we'll never know. It raises interesting questions about authorship, intention and editorial input.
CNN.com - The high school book that's wrong - Apr 21, 2005
Posted by sferrell at April 21, 2005 1:33 PM
