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Jack Randall Crawford

1878–1968

A Yale English professor who also wrote novels, plays, and literary criticism, he is best remembered for the autobiographical novel I Walked in Arden and the reading guide What to Read in English Literature.

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I Walked in Arden

I Walked in Arden

by Jack Randall Crawford

About the author

Born in Washington, D.C., on April 1, 1878, Jack Randall Crawford built a long career around books, teaching, and writing. Reliable archival and reference sources describe him as an author, literary critic, and Yale University professor of English.

Crawford taught at Yale from 1909 to 1946 and later held emeritus status. His papers at Yale show the breadth of his work: correspondence, diaries, teaching materials, fiction, plays, criticism, and an autobiography, including a large body of unpublished writing.

He is most often associated with I Walked in Arden (1922), an autobiographical novel, and What to Read in English Literature (1928), a guide for readers. He died in 1968, leaving behind the record of a writer-scholar whose life was closely tied to literature both in the classroom and on the page.