
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 began his teaching career at Southwestern College (now called Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He also taught at Vanderbilt University and LSU. In 1930, he married Emma Brescia; they later divorced in 1951. He then married Eleanor Clark in 1952. They had two children, Rosanna Phelps Warren (b. July 1953) and Gabriel Penn Warren (b. July 1955). Though his works strongly reflect Southern themes and mindset, Warren published his most famous work, All the King's Men, while a professor at The University of Minnesota and lived the latter part of his life in Fairfield, Connecticut, and Stratton, Vermont. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study in Italy during the rule of Benito Mussolini. He died on September 15, 1989, of complications from bone cancer.
Series
Books

Brother to Dragons
1953

World Enough and Time
1950

Band of Angels
1955

New and Selected Essays
1989

Flood
1964

All the King's Men
1946

Being Here
Poetry 1977-1980
1980

Audubon
A Vision
1969

Segregation
1956

All the King's Men
A Play
1960

Sixty Years of American Poetry
1996

Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back
1980

Blackberry Winter
1946

Wilderness
A Tale of the Civil War
1961

Democracy and Poetry
1975

The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories
1947

At Heaven's Gate
1943

Meet Me in the Green Glen
1974

Promises
Poems 1954-1956
1957

Remember the Alamo!
1958

Who Speaks for the Negro?
1965

Now and Then
Poems 1976-1978
1978

Selected Poems, 1923-1975
1975

Incarnations
1968

Night Rider
1939

A Place to Come To
1977

Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
1944

The Cave
1959

Portrait Of A Father
1988

John Brown
The Making of a Martyr
1929

Faulkner
A Collection of Critical Essays
1967

Chief Joseph Of The Nez Perce
1983