Wade, John Donald, 1892-1963

A noted biographer, essayist, and literary-review editor, John Donald Wade is best remembered for his participation in the Vanderbilt Agrarian movement of the 1930s and especially his contribution to the symposium that was to become that movement's manifesto, I'll take my stand: the South and the Agrarian Tradition (1930).

From the description of Wade, John Donald letter, 1963. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 276231234

John Donald Wade (1892-1963), educator, author, and editor of the Georgia Review (1947-1951), born in Marshallville, Georgia.

From the description of John Donald Wade family papers, 1857-1963 (bulk 1929-1945). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38478246

"A noted biographer, essayist, and literary-review editor, John Donald Wade is best remembered for his participation in the Vanderbilt Agrarian movement of the 1930s and especially his contribution to the symposium that was to become that movement's manifesto, I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (1930). Wade, a Macon County native who spent much of his life in Georgia , was not as prolific as some of his Agrarian colleagues, notably Donald Davidson, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren, and as a result did not attain their fame." - "John Donald Wade." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved September 4, 2008). Wade was also an English professor at the University of Georgia from 1919-1926 and 1934-1946.

Charles Edgeworth Jones of Augusta was a historian.

"In 1835 Augustus Baldwin Longstreet published Georgia's first important literary work, Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, Etc. in the First Half Century of the Republic. Because of this book he is remembered most often as a literary figure. Longstreet, however, only dabbled in fiction writing, just as he dabbled in many other careers, including roles as a lawyer, judge, state senator, newspaper editor, minister, political propagandist, and college president." - "Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870)." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved August 21, 2008)

From the description of John Donald Wade letter, 1921 October 22. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 311127189

"A noted biographer, essayist, and literary-review editor, John Donald Wade is best remembered for his participation in the Vanderbilt Agrarian movement of the 1930s and especially his contribution to the symposium that was to become that movement's manifesto, I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (1930). Wade, a Macon County native who spent much of his life in Georgia , was not as prolific as some of his Agrarian colleagues, notably Donald Davidson, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren, and as a result did not attain their fame." - "John Donald Wade." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved September 4, 2008)

"Flannery O'Connor is considered one of America's greatest fiction writers and one of the strongest apologists for Roman Catholicism in the twentieth century. Born of the marriage of two of Georgia's oldest Catholic families, O'Connor was a devout believer whose small but impressive body of fiction presents the soul's struggle with what she called the 'stinking mad shadow of Jesus' ... In 1992 O'Connor was inducted as an inaugural honoree into Georgia Women of Achievement, and in 2000 she was inducted as a charter member into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame." - "Flannery O'Connor." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved August 25, 2008)

"Robert Penn Warren, born April 24, 1905, Guthrie, Ky., U.S., died Sept. 15, 1989, Stratton, Vt. American novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, best-known for his treatment of moral dilemmas in a South beset by the erosion of its traditional, rural values. He became the first poet laureate of the United States in 1986."--"Robert Penn Warren" from Encyclopaedia Britannica, http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9076135 (Accessed Aug. 17, 2009)

From the description of John Donald Wade papers, 1946-1950. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 432663463