At his request he provided with a documentary photographer she barely knew , a walker evans whose previous work in the self had drawn goodness. Moved the two of them spent two months in hale county with three different families and they produced by a magazine standards in the myth and powerful piece of work, at a 90 page page, 30,000 word manuscript and more than 50 images. For reasons that remain the subject of debate and speculation to this day Fortune Magazine never ran the manuscript. Five years later james agee and evans repurchased the manuscript into the 471 page book, now let us praise famous men which was published by a code mayor flynn who in mifflin five years after fortune turn down the manuscripts. It quickly with debt of print after selling only 600 copies. It won some praise but was criticized of the cacophonous and clashing styles of presentation the end indicted age 45 of a heart attack described as an alcoholic to smoker, serial merrier who lives a life of self neglec