The Kenyon Review
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The Kenyon Review is a literary journal based in Gambier, Ohio, USA, home of Kenyon College. The Review was founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom, critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959. The Review has published early works by generations of important writers, including Robert Penn Warren, Ford Madox Ford, Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, Flannery O'Connor, Boris Pasternak, Robert Lowell, Bertold Brecht, Peter Taylor, Dylan Thomas, Anthony Hecht, Maya Angelou, Rita Dove, Derek Walcott, Woody Allen, Louise Erdrich, William Empson, Mark Van Doren, Kenneth Burke, Delmore Schwartz, and Ha Jin.
It was perhaps the best known and most influential literary magazine in the English-speaking world during the 1940s and 1950s. The magazine's reputation for uncovering new talent continues today. Its short stories have won more O. Henry Awards than any other nonprofit journal—-most recently, two in 2004.
- Editor: David H. Lynn, professor of English at Kenyon College
- Managing Editor: Meg Galipault
- Fiction Editor: Nancy Zafris
- Poetry Editor: David Baker
- International Editor: John Kinsella
- Editors at Large: Claire Messud, James Wood
- Advisory Board: David Bergman, Robb Forman Dew, E.L. Doctorow, Daniel Mark Epstein, Alice Fulton, Amitav Ghosh, Rachel Hadas, Michael S. Harper, John Hollander, Lewis Hyde, Allison Joseph, Rebecca McClanahan, Reginald McKnight, Joyce Carol Oates, Wyatt Prunty, Mary Jo Salter, Michael Wood
