Quick Facts About Robert Penn Warren
- Born
- April 24, 1905
- Died
- September 15, 1989
- Nationality
- United States
- Profession
- Poet
- Notable works
- Understanding poetry
- Known for
- All the King's Men, At Heaven's Gate, Night Rider, Understanding Poetry, Who Speaks for the Negro?
- Spouse
- Eleanor Clark
About Robert Penn Warren
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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Awards & Honors
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Bollingen Prize
National Book Award
Robert Frost Medal
United States Poet Laureate
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
Rhodes Scholarship
Guggenheim Fellowship
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MacArthur Fellows Program
National Medal of Arts
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Rome Prize
Shelley Memorial Award
The Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism
