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): Adrian Pasdar • Andrew Carwood • Anton Murray • António Guterres • Charles Beetham • Charles Sanderson, Baron Sanderson of Bowden • David Kitchin, Lord Kitchin • Gaston III, Count of Foix • Geoffrey Cox (British politician) • Hugh Hood • Humberto Mauro • Ian Healy • J. Michael Brady • Kaarel Kiidron • Nicolas Hulot • Phil Garner • Sallehuddin of Kedah • Sander Baart • Shrinivas Khale • Tony Harrison

Born in the same month (April 1888): Dan Ahearn • Dennis Chávez • Gerhard Ritter • Herms Niel • Michael Heidelberger • Pe Maung Tin • Sol Hurok • Walter Tull • Zdzisław Żygulski (literary historian)