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): Anna Cramling • Charles Sanderson, Baron Sanderson of Bowden • Duncan Hamilton (racing driver) • Erni Krusten • Eugène Simon • Isiah Thomas • Jaroslav Hašek • Kirsten Dunst • Léon Flameng • Martten Kaldvee • Mathurin Jacques Brisson • Max Merritt • Oh Hye-ri • Orlando Sirola • Phil Garner

Born in the same month (April 1888): Billy Minter • Cecil Kimber • Dennis Chávez • Florence La Badie • Georges Vanier • Gerhard Ritter • Maximilian Kronberger • Neville Cardus • Pe Maung Tin • Tris Speaker