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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 founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for 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.
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Average rating: 4.08 · 72,789 ratings · 4,440 reviews · 351 distinct works • Similar authors

	All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, Joseph Blotner (Foreword) 4.09 avg rating — 67,282 ratings — published 1946 — 287 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 — 449 ratings — published 1977 — 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
	All the King's Men: A Play 4.07 avg rating — 335 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 3.69 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 1955 — 32 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
	Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century by Robert Penn Warren (Editor), Albert Erskine (Editor) 3.82 avg rating — 315 ratings — published 1954 — 32 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 — 222 ratings — published 1950 — 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
	Night Rider (Southern Classics) (Southern Classics Series) by Robert Penn Warren, George Core (Photographer) 3.61 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 1939 — 42 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) 3.58 avg rating — 176 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
	The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1947 — 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
	Six Centuries of Great Poetry: A Stunning Collection of Classic British Poems from Chaucer to Yeats by Robert Penn Warren (Editor), Albert Erskine 4.02 avg rating — 136 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

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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

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1st Quarter 2018 Long Read Poll

Ulysses by James Joyce, 1922, 810 pages

69 votes, 20.0%

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 1849, 974 pages

67 votes, 19.4%

The Arabian Nights, 800, 1049 pages

46 votes, 13.3%

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847, 867 pages

41 votes, 11.9%

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, 1946, 661 pages

24 votes, 7.0%

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, 1985, 945 pages

19 votes, 5.5%

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence, 1913, 654 pages

19 votes, 5.5%

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, 1925, 859 pages

14 votes, 4.1%

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 1353, 909 pages

14 votes, 4.1%

Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas, 1845, 788 pages

10 votes, 2.9%

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne, 1767, 784 pages

6 votes, 1.7%

From Here to Eternity by James Jones, 1951, 816 pages

6 votes, 1.7%

The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek, 1921, 752 pages

6 votes, 1.7%

Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens, 1948, 614 pages

2 votes, 0.6%

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady, 1748, 1534 pages

2 votes, 0.6%

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