Another look at a sequel to a Depression-era classic

And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of `Let Us Now Praise Famous Men’

By Dale Maharidge, photos by Michael Williamson

Seven Stories, 262 pages, $17.95 paper

This reissued volume, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990, is a moving sequel to James Agee and Walker Evans’ “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” an intimate look at three tenant-farming families in Alabama in 1936 and a classic collective portrait of the hardship of the Depression. Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson spent three years with the families from the first book, exploring how their lives had changed.