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DONALD DAVIDSON (1893 – 1968) Donald Davidson was born in Campbellsville, Tennessee, the son of teachers. He earned his B.A. and M.A. from Vanderbilt and taught at the university his entire career. Davidson taught at the Bread Loaf School, wrote the well-respected Tennessean Book Page, and at age 24 served as a Lieutenant in WWI. Davidson wrote extensively on the themes of Tennessee and Southern regionalism in works including Lee in the Mountains (1934), The Tall Men (1927) and The Outland Piper (1924). |
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JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888 – 1974) Tennessee’s most influential poet, John Crowe Ransom was born in Pulaski, Tennessee the son of a Methodist minister. A Rhodes Scholar, a Vanderbilt University graduate and a member of the Vanderbilt faculty prior to his service in WWI. Ransom taught at Vanderbilt until his 1937 departure for Kenyon College where he founded the Kenyon Review. His literary contributions include Poems about God (1919), Chills and Fever (1924), The New Criticism (1946) and his Selected Poems (1968) received the National Book Award. |
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ALLEN TATE (1899 – 1979) John Orley Allen Tate was born in Winchester, Kentucky in 1899. Prior to graduation from Vanderbilt University, he attended the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and studied the violin. Tate was poet-in-residence and founded the Creative Writing program at Princeton University, and his oversight transformed The Sewanee Review. A poet, essayist, novelist and editor, his works include Mr. Pope and Other Poems (1928), The Mediterranean and Other Poems (1936), The Fathers (1940) and biographies on Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson. His numerous recognitions include the Bollingen Prize, the National Medal for Literature, Academy of American Poets Award and he was the second appointee of Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. |
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Robert Penn Warren (1905 – 1989) Acclaimed author, Robert Penn Warren was born in Guthrie, Kentucky in 1905. He received a B.A. from Vanderbilt University, an M.A. from the University of California and a B.Litt from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He held various academic positions at Vanderbilt, LSU, University of Minnesota and Yale. His novel All the King’s Men won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 and the adapted film won the Academy Award. Warren is the only writer to have received three Pulitzer Prizes in two genres. His poetry books Promises and Now and Then were each awarded that Prize. A prolific and influential writer, he has written in, and been received in most literary genres. Among his honors are the MacArthur Fellowship, Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Poet Laureate of the United States, the National Medal of Arts, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. |
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