| LC control no. | n 80044856 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3539.A74 |
| Personal name heading | Tate, Allen, 1899-1979 |
| Variant(s) | Tate, John Orley Allen, 1899-1979 Tate, Orley Allen, 1899-1979 |
| Associated country | United States England France |
| Located | Ashland (Ky.) Washington (D.C.) Nashville (Tenn.) New York (N.Y.) Princeton (N.J.) Memphis (Tenn.) Sewanee (Tenn.) Greensboro (N.C.) Minneapolis (Minn.) |
| Birth date | 1899-11-10 |
| Death date | 1979-02-09 |
| Place of birth | Winchester (Ky.) |
| Place of death | Nashville (Tenn.) |
| Affiliation | Georgetown University Vanderbilt University Southwestern College (Memphis, Tenn.) University of the South University of North Carolina at Greensboro University of Minnesota Library of Congress Princeton University Oxford University |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Critics Biographers College teachers |
| Found in | His Stonewall Jackson, 1928. NUCMC data from Duke Univ. Lib. for Hubbell, J.B. Papers, 1905-1977 (Allen Tate) NUCMC file (Tate, Allen, 1899-1979; b. John Orley Allen Tate) Information from 678 converted Jan. 5, 2015 (d. 2/9/79) Kentucky encyclopedia, ©1992: page 867 (Allen Tate was born in Winchester, Ky. on November 10, 1899. At age three, moved with his family to Ashland, Ky. Attended Georgetown University Preparatory School in Washington, D.C. Entered Vanderbilt University in 1918. In 1924 moved to New York City where he gained recognition as a poet, literary critic and biographer. Won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1928 and spent most of that year and the next in England and France. Returned to Tennessee in February 1930. Served as writer in residence at Princeton University 1939-1942 and lectured at Oxford University in England in 1953. Held many teaching appointments in colleges and universities, including at Southwestern College in Memphis, University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and University of Minnesota. Poetry consultant to the Library of Congress 1943-1944. Died in Nashville February 9, 1979.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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