# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-crowe-ransom
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:20:06.087Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-crowe-ransom"
name: "John Crowe Ransom"
slug: "john-crowe-ransom"
description: "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."
tagline: "American poet (1888–1974)"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1888-04-30"
deathDate: "1974-07-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump