About John Crowe Ransom
John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888, Pulaski, Tennessee- July 3, 1974, Gambier, Ohio) was an American poet, essayist, social and political theorist, man of letters, and academic. Ransom was the third of four children of a Methodist minister. His family was highly literate. As a child, he read his family's library and engaged his father in passionate discussions. He wrote many books and poems in his life. Ransom was home schooled until age ten, and entered Vanderbilt University at fifteen, graduating first in his class in 1909.
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