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
- Emma Brescia
(1930/09/12 - 1951/06/28) - Eleanor Clark
(1952/12/07 - 1989/09/15)
- Emma Brescia
- 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
- Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley
- Employment
- Louisiana State University
- Lived in
- Louisiana
- Connecticut
(1950 - 1973) - Fairfield
( - 1989/09/15) - Stratton
( - 1989/09/15)
- Died
- Sep 15, 1989
Stratton
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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