Title: Harry Huntt Ransom
Description: "Both a life story and a portrait of public higher education during the twentieth century, Harry Huntt Ransom captures the spirit of a dynamic individual who dedicated his talents to nurturing intellectual life in Texas and beyond. Tracing the details of Ransom's youth in Galveston and Tennessee and his education at Yale, where he earned a doctorate, Alan Gribben provides new insight into the factors that shaped Ransom's future as a renowned administrator and defender of the humanities."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Biography, Educators, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, History, University of Texas at Austin, University of texas, Educators, united states, Texas, biography
Places: United States
People: Harry Huntt Ransom (1908-)