Pulitzer Prize General Non Fiction Winner
And Their Children After Them
by Dale Maharidge & Michael Williamson
Summary
A return visit, fifty years on, to the Alabama tenant farming families James Agee and Walker Evans documented in "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." Maharidge's reporting and Williamson's photographs trace what became of the children and grandchildren of those Depression-era sharecroppers, finding poverty stubbornly intact even amid the postwar boom. The book is both a literary homage and a sober assessment of how little had changed in the rural South.
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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.