In 1938, Kenyon College president Gordon Keith Chalmers brought poet and critic John Crowe Ransom to Gambier Hill to create a distinguished literary review. With its first appearance late that year, The Kenyon Review became one of the most influential and honored literary magazines in America. During his two decades as editor, Ransom published authors including Robert Penn Warren, William Empson, Flannery O'Connor, Doris Lessing, Robert Lowell, and Randall Jarrell. The Kenyon Review also became closely identified with New Criticism, a method of interpreting literature that influenced succeeding generations of readers and teachers around the world. Aspiring writers made pilgrimages to Gambier to work with Ransom. Robert Lowell transferred from Harvard to Kenyon College to study with him in 1938, and Peter Taylor soon appeared and became Lowell's roommate in Douglass House; others there included Randall Jarrell and Robie Macauley. Along with F.O. Matthiessen and Lionel Trilling, Ransom founded the Kenyon School of English in 1948, and for several summers it brought together students for graduate-level study of literature. In the 1940s and 50s, talented younger writers continued to arrive, including E.L. Doctorow and James Wright.