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Allen Tate, teacher, writer, poet, and critic, was associated with Tennessee for most of his life and lived in the state for long periods, especially during his college years at Vanderbilt University (1918-23) and during his last years in Nashville and Sewanee (1967-79). Tate grew up thinking that he had been born in Virginia but, in fact, like other members of the Fugitives and Agrarians, was born in Kentucky–in his case in Winchester in bluegrass country.

For all of his mature life Tate was a professional man of letters. First and foremost, he was a writer, not a teacher, although he taught often, especially at the University of Minnesota (1951-66). As was the case with his two masters, T. S. Eliot and John Crowe Ransom, Tate was known chiefly for his criticism and poetry. He also wrote biography (lives of Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis); a novel, The Fathers (1940); translations; tributes to such friends as Eliot, Ransom, Andrew Lytle, and Cleanth Brooks; and memoirs. With Caroline Gordon he wrote and edited a superb textbook, The Craft of Fiction (1951). He edite

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