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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 · 67,545 ratings · 3,689 reviews · 207 distinct works • Similar authors

	All the King's Men 4.09 avg rating — 62,639 ratings — published 1946 — 90 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 4.08 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 1960 — 13 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 3.95 avg rating — 333 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
	Band of Angels: A Novel 3.72 avg rating — 323 ratings — published 1955 — 31 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 3.79 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 1950 — 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
	Night Rider (Southern Classics Series) by Robert Penn Warren, George Core (Photographer) 3.61 avg rating — 179 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 — 135 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 4.03 avg rating — 127 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
	The Cave 3.73 avg rating — 124 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
	Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices: A New Version 4.20 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1953 — 15 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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What shall we read in September, 2022? Books published in or before 1990.

All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren

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Giant, by Edna Ferber

16 votes 24.2%

Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South, by Anne Moody

9 votes 13.6%

A Virtuous Woman, by Kaye Gibbons

8 votes 12.1%

In This Our Life, by Ellen Glasgow

6 votes 9.1%

The Chaneysville Incident, by David Bradley

5 votes 7.6%

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