Best known for his membership in the group of Fugitive poets, who gathered in Nashville during the 1920s, Donald Grady Davidson was born in Campbellsville, Tennessee, to William Bluford and Elma Wells Davidson in 1893. In 1909, graduated from Branham and Hughes School in Spring Hill, Tennessee, Davidson entered Vanderbilt University, with which he was to remain intimately identified for most of his life. Unfortunately, in 1910, inadequate finances forced his withdrawal after only one year in attendance, and he taught in small town schools until he could return in 1914 to Vanderbilt, where he attended classes taught by Edwin Mims, John Crowe Ransom, and Walter Clyde Curry. While a student, he also taught at Wallace University School and attended summer school for two summers at George Peabody College. He had not quite finished his course work when he entered officer's candidate school at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in 1917, but he was granted...