Deedee Agee, daughter of the late novelist and film critic James Agee, is a writer currently at work on a memoir about growing up in Greenwich Village in the fifties and sixties (working title: Coming of Age in Greenwich Village.) She has an MFA in writing from Columbia School of the Arts, and has taught writing in area colleges as well as privately for many years. She has also worked as a waitress, house painter, reproductive counselor, chef and software trainer at the United Nations. Ms. Agee lives in Scituate, Massachussets, with her husband, Rev. Paul Sprecher, who is trustee of the James Agee Trust. She enjoys performing public readings and has read her work in New York at the 92nd Street Y and Cornelia Street Café, in New Jersey at the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood, and at the Ridgewood, Nyack, and Ramsey Public Libraries, as well as for several senior citizen’s groups. Two recordings from Cornelia Street Cafe, both somewhat humorous, may be sampled on this site. "My Name" serves as an introduction for the author. "Momentum," which appeared in the Spring 2002 issue of Doubletake magazine, ends with one hair-raising episode in the life of her bohemian family.

  James Agee died suddenly at the age of forty-five of a heart attack, leaving behind Deedee, who was eight, and two younger siblings. A posthumous legend grew around his life and work which includes Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, an unclassifiable portrait of white tenant farmers in Alabama during the depression, A Death in the Family, an autobiographical novel about his father dying when he was six published posthumously, and The Morning Watch, a coming-of-age novella set in an Episcopal school in Tennessee. He wrote the film scripts for African Queen and Night of the Hunter, articles for Fortune, and film criticism for both The Nation and Time for several years.