Pulitzer Prize General Non Fiction Winner

And Their Children After Them

by Dale Maharidge & Michael Williamson

Summary

A "follow-up" to James Agee's 1941 "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," revisiting the same Alabama sharecropping families fifty years later.

Historical Context & Significance

The book won for exposing the cycle of poverty that persisted in the South, despite the economic boom of the mid-20th century.