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[[File:Robert Penn Warren.jpg|right|200px]]
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'''Robert Penn Warren''' (1905–1989), was an American novelist, poet, teacher, 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]
'''Robert Penn Warren''' (1905–1989), was an American novelist, poet, teacher, 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 1986, he was appointed the nation's first Poet Laureate.
In 1935, Robert Warren founded along with Charles W. Pipkinand and Cleanth Brooks the literary journal ''The Southern Review''.
In 1935, Robert Warren founded along with Charles W. Pipkinand and Cleanth Brooks the literary journal ''The Southern Review''.