Allen Tate Papers Correspondence and Manuscripts Collection
Scope and Content Note
Dates
- 1923-1974
Creator
- Tate, Allen (John Orley Allen Tate) (Person)
Language of Materials
Biographical Note
Allen Tate was also a teacher with appointments at among others the Women’s College of the University of North Carolina, Princeton, New York University, and the University of Minnesota where he taught from 1951 until his retirement in 1968.
He was married twice to the writer Caroline Gordon from 1924 to 1959. They had a daughter Nancy born in 1924. After his divorce from Caroline Gordon in 1959 he married poet Isabella Gardner. And after his divorce from Gardner in 1966 he married his former student at Minnesota Helen Heinz. They had three sons, one of whom died in an accident in infancy.
Tate lived in many places including England and France (on a Guggenheim Fellowship), New York, Minnesota, Sewanee, and at his farm Benfolly near Clarksville, Tennessee. He had lifelong friendships with writers Robert Penn Warren, Donald Davidson, Andrew Lytle, Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Ford Madox Ford, John Peale Bishop.
Allen Tate died in Nashville, Tennessee in February 1979. His papers are at the Firestone Library at Princeton University.
Extent
.21 Linear Feet
Physical Location
Creator
- Tate, Allen (John Orley Allen Tate) (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid for the Allen Tate Papers Correspondence and Manuscripts Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Vanderbilt University Special Collections Repository
Jean and Alexander Heard Library
419 21st Avenue South
Nashville TN 37203 United States
specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu