Robert Penn Warren

Novelist, Author

1905 – 1989

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Who was Robert Penn Warren?

Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men 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.

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Born
Apr 24, 1905
Guthrie
Also known as
  • Warren, Robert Penn
Parents
Spouses
Children
Ethnicity
  • White American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley
    English Literature
    ( - 1927)
  • Yale University
    (1927 - 1928)
  • Bachelor of Arts, Vanderbilt University
    ( - 1925)
  • Bachelor of Letters, University of Oxford
    English Literature
    (1928 - 1930)
  • Clarksville Senior High School
Employment
  • Louisiana State University
Lived in
  • Louisiana
  • Connecticut
    (1950 - 1973)
  • Fairfield
    ( - 1989/09/15)
  • Stratton
    ( - 1989/09/15)
Died
Sep 15, 1989
Stratton

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on July 23, 2013

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