Biography
Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) 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 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.
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GenderMale
Birthday1905-04-24
Deathday1989-09-15 (84 years old)
RelationshipsEleanor Clark (1952-12-07 - 1989-09-15)
ChildrenRosanna Warren
MotherAnna Ruth Warren
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesFairfield · Stratton · Connecticut · Louisiana, United States of America
AwardsMacArthur Fellows Program, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Medal of Arts, Bollingen Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, United States Poet Laureate, Robert Frost Medal, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Emerson-Thoreau Medal, Jefferson Lecture, Shelley Memorial Award, St. Louis Literary Award, Rhodes Scholarship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Rome Prize, National Book Award for Poetry, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
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