The Resume

(November 27, 1909-May 16, 1955)
Wrote 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men' and 'A Death in the Family'
Staff writer for Fortune Magazine
Namesake for a library in Tennessee

Why he might be annoying:

His mother's second husband was a priest.
He was divorced twice.
He died in a taxi cab (don't those cars smell bad enough?).
His mother outlived him.

Why he might not be annoying:

His father died in an automobile accident when James was six.
He graduated Harvard University (1932).
He won a Pulitzer Prize for 'A Death in the Family.'

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Film Critics
• I Attended Harvard
• I Attended Phillips Exeter Academy [New Hampshire]
• I Died in 1955 (Ranked: 46)
• I Write Bildungsroman
• Night of the Hunter [1955]
• Profiles 6001-6250 (Ranked: 6169)
• Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels [Authors]

Year In Review:

In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 23 Votes: 82.61% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 12 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 18 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 10 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 17 Votes: 47.06% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 23 Votes: 39.13% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 33 Votes: 60.61% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 68 Votes: 55.88% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 100 Votes: 61.00% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 167 Votes: 50.30% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 232 Votes: 51.72% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 487 Votes: 52.98% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 202 Votes: 61.88% Annoying