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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: 4.08 · 70,257 ratings · 4,059 reviews · 265 distinct works • Similar authors

	All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, Joseph Blotner (Foreword) 4.09 avg rating — 65,048 ratings — published 1946 — 106 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 3.96 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 1977 — 20 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 4.06 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 1960 — 12 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 3.71 avg rating — 335 ratings — published 1955 — 7 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 3.76 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 1950 — 21 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) 3.60 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 1939 — 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
	The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories 4.02 avg rating — 138 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
	Wilderness: A Tale Of The Civil War by Robert Penn Warren, James H. Justus (Contributor) 3.61 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1961 — 27 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 4.01 avg rating — 133 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 3.71 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 1959 — 24 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

tags: travel, west

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March 2018 New School

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 317 pgs, 1933

63 votes, 18.4%

The Castle by Franz Kafka, 316 pgs, 1926

39 votes, 11.4%

My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 232 pgs, 1918

34 votes, 9.9%

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, 320 pgs, 1936

29 votes, 8.5%

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, 439 pgs, 1946

25 votes, 7.3%

Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 437 pgs, 1994

20 votes, 5.8%

The Wreath by Sigrid Undset, 305 pgs, 1920

20 votes, 5.8%

Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons, 233 pgs, 1932

19 votes, 5.6%

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, 544 pgs, 1982

18 votes, 5.3%

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, 384 pgs, 1956

13 votes, 3.8%

Ross Poldark by Winston Graham, 379 pgs, 1945

13 votes, 3.8%

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton, 370 pgs, 1913

11 votes, 3.2%

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, 232 pgs, 1922

9 votes, 2.6%

The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna, 338 pgs, 1954

8 votes, 2.3%

The Professor's House by Willa Cather, 256 pgs, 1925

7 votes, 2.0%

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, 335 pgs, 1966

4 votes, 1.2%

A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul, 623 pgs, 1961

4 votes, 1.2%

Martin Eden by Jack London, 480 pgs, 1909

3 votes, 0.9%

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, 688 pgs, 1933

3 votes, 0.9%

342 total votes

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