Robert Penn Warren
American poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989)
Biography
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.
Occupation
Robert Penn Warren is recorded as a children's writer, a literary critic, a novelist, a journalist, a poet and a writer, born in Kentucky (1905–1989).
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