John Crowe Ransom

John Crowe Ransom was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism. As a faculty member at Kenyon College, he was the first editor of the widely regarded Kenyon Review. Highly respected as a teacher and mentor to a generation of accomplished students, he also was a prize-winning poet and essayist. He was nominated for the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature.

30 April 1888

Born on the same birth day (30 April): Chris Morris (cricketer) • Corinne Calvet • Eve Arden • Jacques Audiard • Léon Flameng • Sallehuddin of Kedah • Władysław Witwicki

Born in the same month (April 1888): Billy Minter • Cecil Kimber • Dan Ahearn • Dennis Chávez • Florence La Badie • Georges Vanier • Gerhard Ritter • Hans Richter (artist) • Herms Niel • Maximilian Kronberger • Pe Maung Tin • Sol Hurok • Thomas C. Kinkaid • Tris Speaker