Robert Penn Warren Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
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 influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel 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.
Novelist, poet, critic and teacher. His best-known novel, "All the King's Men" (1946), won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947. The screen adaptation, All the King's Men (1949), won the Academy Award for best motion picture of 1949. In 1986, Warren became the first poet laureate of the United States.
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Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 877-881. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
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HE was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1987 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
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Pictured on a 37¢ USA commemorative stamp in the Literary Arts series, issued in his honor on 22 April 1995, two days before the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Carlisle Floyd's Willie Stark
2008
Video novel "All the King's Men"
All the King's Men
2006
novel
War is Kind: Poetry of the Civil War
1999
Video poetry written by
Great Performances
1975
TV Series poem - 1 episode
Vsya korolevskaya rat
1971
TV Mini-Series
Shoestring Theatre
1959
TV Series 1 episode
Kraft Theatre
1958
TV Series novel - 2 episodes
All the King's Men
1958
TV Movie novel
Band of Angels
1957
novel "Band of Angels"
All the King's Men
1949
based upon: the Pulitzer Prize novel "All the King's Men"