John Crowe Ransom

John Crowe Ransom
Fellow: Awarded 1931
Field of Study: Poetry
Competition: US & Canada
Vanderbilt University
As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1931–32:
RANSOM, JOHN CROWE: Appointed for creative writing, abroad; tenure, twelve months from October 1, 1931.
Born April 30, 1888, at Pulaski, Tennessee. Education: Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1909; University of Oxford, Rhodes Scholar from Tennessee (Christ Church), B.A., 1913.
Instructor in English, 1914–17, Assistant Professor, 1919–23, Associate Professor, 1923–27, Professor, 1927—, Vanderbilt University.
Publications: Poems about God, 1919; Chills and Fever, 1924; Two Gentlemen in Bonds, 1927; God Without Thunder, 1930. Contributor to I’ll Take my Stand: the South and the Agrarian Tradition, 1930.
National Book, Poetry, 1964