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Robert Penn Warren
AuthorBooks · Second hand1905-1989
Robert Penn Warren 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.
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About Robert Penn Warren
Birth
1905
Death
1989
First book
1946
Years writing
80
Robert Penn Warren 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.
Robert Penn Warren was a multifaceted figure who excelled as a poet, novelist, literary critic, and journalist.
His masterpiece, All the King's Men, remains a fundamental benchmark of American literature.
Beyond his creative work, he served as a professor at the prestigious Yale University.
His literary legacy is vast, encompassing over two hundred published works throughout his life.
He explored a wide variety of genres, including children's literature and critical analysis of poetry.
