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Robert Penn Warren
Sign in to saveAmerican 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
Guthrie, Kentucky, USA
Known for
- Robert Penn Warren: A Vision2018
- American Masters — Self1986
- Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise — Interview1985
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1905-04-24 ) April 24, 1905, Guthrie, Kentucky , U.S.
- Died
- September 15, 1989 (1989-09-15) (aged 84) , Stratton, Vermont , U.S.
- Occupation
- Writer critic
- Education
- Vanderbilt University ( BA ) University of California, Berkeley ( MA ) Yale University New College, Oxford ( BLitt )
- Genre
- Poetry novels
- Notable awards
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1947) Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1958, 1979) Bollingen Prize (1967) Robert Frost Medal (1985)
- Spouse
- Emma "Cinina" Brescia (1929–1951) Eleanor Clark (1952 – his death)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Warren
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Guthrie
- Place of death
- Stratton
- Spouse
- Eleanor Clark
- Child
- Rosanna Warren
- Occupation
- children's writer
- Employer
- Vanderbilt University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Official website
- www.robertpennwarren.com
- Image
- Robert Penn Warren.jpg
- Residence
- Stratton
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- Robert Penn Warren
- date of birth
- 1905-04-24
- date of death
- 1989-09-15
- manner of death
- natural causes
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- name in native language
- Robert Penn Warren
- place of burial
- Vermont
- has works in the collection
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
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
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