Robert Penn Warren
American poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 24 Apr 1905
- Died
- 15 Sep 1989
- Works
- 206
Top works
- William Faulkner
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
- All the King's Men (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
- Understanding fiction -- Second Edition
- The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
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Film & TV
Writing · Guthrie, Kentucky, USA
Known for
- Robert Penn Warren: A Vision2018
- American Masters — Self1986
- Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise — Interview1985
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Person
- Country
- US
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Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, literary critic and professor at Yale University. He was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry. Yale awarded Warren an honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 1973.
Early years