Allen Tate

Mr. Tate was a scholar, a poet, a teacher, a critic, an editor, and a biographer. After teaching at numerous colleges, including Princeton, NYU, Kenyon, and the University of Chicago, he retired from the University of Minnesota as Regents’ Professor of English. He was founder and editor of The Fugitive, editor of The Sewanee Review, and author of numerous collections of poems, literary criticism, a novel, and two biographies, Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier (Milton, Balch and Company, 1928) and Jefferson Davis: His Rise and Fall, a Biographical Narrative (Milton, Balch and Company, 1929).