Andrew Lytle (1902-1995) was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and educated at the Sewanee Military Academy, Exeter College in Oxford, and Vanderbilt University. Along with Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, and John Crowe Ransom,  Lytle founded the Southern Agrarian Movement which formally began with the publication of their manifesto, I'll Take My Stand.  He taught at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop and at the University of Florida, and was editor of the Sewanee Review.  Lytle received three Guggenheim Fellowships and a Kenyon Review fellowship for fiction.  Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company is still considered one of the best works about Civil War general Nathan Bedford Forrest.