Donald Grady Davidson (1893~1966) John Crowe Ransom (1888~1974)
Giles County natives Donald G. Davidson and John C. Ransom were influential personages in American literature. Professors at Vanderbilt University, they helped found The Fugitive (1922~25), a magazine which launched the "Southern literary renaissance." They contributed to the essential Agrarian manifesto, I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (1930), essays critical of industry's dehumanizing effects on the South.
Marker can be reached from South Second Street north of West Madison Street, on the right when traveling south.
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