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Robert Penn Warren

Born

in Guthrie, Kentucky, The United States

April 24, 1905

Died

September 15, 1989

Website

http://www.robertpennwarren.com/

Genre

Poetry, Fiction, Literary Criticism

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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 is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry. He won the Pulitzer in 1947 for his novel All the King's Men (1946) and won his subsequent Pulitzer Prizes for poetry in 1957 and then in 1979.

Warren was born on April 24, 1905, in Guthrie, Kentucky. He graduated from Clarksville High School in Tennessee, Vanderbilt University in 1925 and the University of California, Berkeley in 1926. Warren later attended Yale University and obtained his B. Litt. as a Rhodes Scholar from New College, Oxford, in England in 1930. That same year he ...more

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Average rating: 4.07 · 69,105 ratings · 3,916 reviews · 246 distinct works • Similar authors

	All the King's Men 4.09 avg rating — 64,000 ratings — published 1946 — 281 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Place to Come To 3.97 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 1977 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All the King's Men: A Play 4.07 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 1960 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Band of Angels: A Novel 3.71 avg rating — 337 ratings — published 1955 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	World Enough and Time: A Novel 3.78 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 1950 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night Rider (Southern Classics Series) by Robert Penn Warren, George Core (Photographer) 3.60 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 1939 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories 4.04 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 1947 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Centuries of Great Poetry: A Stunning Collection of Classic British Poems from Chaucer to Yeats by Robert Penn Warren (Editor), Albert Erskine 4.02 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1992 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wilderness: A Tale Of The Civil War by Robert Penn Warren, James H. Justus (Contributor) 3.58 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 1961 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cave 3.72 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1959 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Tell me a story of deep delight.”
― Robert Penn Warren

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“The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

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“For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

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Polls

April 2017 New School Classic Poll

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, 211, 1962

58 votes, 17.8%

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, 607 pgs, 1994

47 votes, 14.5%

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 246, 1969

46 votes, 14.2%

The Color Purple by Alice Walker, 295, 1982

30 votes, 9.2%

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, 1997, 340

23 votes, 7.1%

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 288 pgs, 1989

23 votes, 7.1%

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, 661, 1946

22 votes, 6.8%

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, 192, 1967

22 votes, 6.8%

One of Ours by Willa Cather, 343, 1922

18 votes, 5.5%

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder, 403, 1991

16 votes, 4.9%

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton, 370, 1913

10 votes, 3.1%

The Long Walk by Richard Bachman/Stephen King, 370, 1979

10 votes, 3.1%

325 total votes

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