The primacy of text over author is of course a founding tenet of the New Criticism that formed Doctorow 's writerly values -- he was a protege of John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College in the early 1950 's .
John Crowe Ransom /business/person/company Kenyon College
DT NN IN NN IN NN VBZ IN NN DT NN NN IN DT NNP NNP WDT VBD NNP POS JJ NNS : PRP VBD DT NN IN NNP NNP NNP IN NNP NNP IN DT JJ CD POS .
John Crowe Ransom
PERSON
Kenyon College
ORGANIZATION
/business/person/company