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- ↑ Agee, James. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction. Michael Sragow, ed. New York: Library of America, 2005, p. 808. ISBN 1-931082-81-2
- ↑ Wranovics, John. Chaplin and Agee. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, p. 85. ISBN 1-4039-6866-7
- ↑ Sragow, Michael, ed., p. 811