Jack Randall Crawford

Jack Randall Crawford (1878–1968) was an author of novels (many unpublished), plays, and literary criticism and a professor of English at Yale University; he is perhaps best known for his 1922 autobiographical novel I Walked in Arden and his 1928 nonfiction What to Read in English Literature.[1]

Biography

Crawford received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1901.[2] He became an instructor in English at Yale University and also Director of Dramatics at Dartmouth College.[3] He was a professor of English at Yale University from 1909-1946 and then professor emeritus from 1946 until his death in 1968. In addition to his novels, plays, and literary criticism, he wrote an autobiography and edited several of Shakespeare's plays for Yale University Press.[4]

Nonfiction

  • with Mary Porter Beegle: Beegle, Mary Porter; Crawford, Jack Randall (1916). Community drama and pageantry.
  • What to read in English literature. 1928.

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Plays

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