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'''Robert Penn Warren''' (1905–1989), was an American novelist, poet and critic. Born in Guthrie, Kentucky, and educated at Vanderbilt University (BA 1925), Warren became a leader of the "[[Nashville Agrarians]]" in the 1930s. He represent a strong conservative voice in American letters. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice for poetry, ''Brother to Dragons'' (1953), a long, dramatic poem, and ''Promises'' (1957);  and once for his novel about [[Huey Long]] and the corruptions of Southern politics in the 1930s, ''All the King’s Men'' (1946). Warren is the only one who have won [[Pulitzer Prize]]s for both fiction and poetry. ''Warren's greatest dramatic lyrics stand with the best American poetry of the twentieth century, with Frost, Stevens, Eliot, and Hart Crane.'' [http://www.robertpennwarren.com/New%20Book%20by%20Joe%20Millichap.htm]
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'''Robert Penn Warren''' (1905–1989), was an American novelist, poet and critic. Born in Guthrie, Kentucky, and educated at Vanderbilt University (BA 1925), Warren became a leader of the "[[Nashville Agrarians]]" in the 1930s. He represent a strong conservative voice in American letters. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice for poetry, ''Brother to Dragons'' (1953), a long, dramatic poem, and ''Promises'' (1957);  and once for his novel about [[Huey Long]] and the corruptions of Southern politics in the 1930s, ''All the King’s Men'' (1946). Warren is the only one who have won [[Pulitzer Prize]]s for both fiction and poetry. ''Warren's greatest dramatic lyrics stand with the best American poetry of the twentieth century, with Frost, Stevens, [[T.S. Eliot|Eliot]], and Hart Crane.'' [http://www.robertpennwarren.com/New%20Book%20by%20Joe%20Millichap.htm]
    
In 1935, Robert Warren and Cleanth Brooks founded the literary journal ''The Southern Review''.  
 
In 1935, Robert Warren and Cleanth Brooks founded the literary journal ''The Southern Review''.  

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