Inspirational Quotes by Robert Penn Warren (American Novelist, Poet)

Robert Penn Warren (1905–89) was an American novelist, poet, and critic. He is best known for exploring the meaning of contemporary existence in a Southern Agrarian America plagued by the erosion of its traditional, rural values. He is the only person to have received Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and poetry (for which he won it twice.) He became the first poet laureate of the United States in 1986.

Born in Guthrie, Kentucky, Warren was educated at Vanderbilt, Berkeley, and Yale universities, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He held various academic positions as Professor of English at Louisiana State University 1934–42 and at University of Minnesota 1942–50, and professor of drama 1951–56 and of English 1962–73 at Yale.

Warren established an international reputation with his Pulitzer Prize-winning political novel All the King’s Men (1946, All the King’s Men film 1949) based on the rise and fall of Louisiana Governor Huey Long.

Warren’s other works include John Brown, the Making of a Martyr (1929,) Night Rider (1939,) The Cave (1959,) Wilderness (1961,) the story of a Jew in the Civil War, and Meet Me in the Green Glen (1971.)

Warren also published some volumes of short stories, and verse including Promises (1957, Pulitzer,) Selected Poems, Old and New, 1923–66 (1966,) Or Else (1974,) and Rumour Verified (1981.)

Warren collaborated with the critic Cleanth Brooks and wrote such critical works as Understanding Poetry (1938) and Understanding Fiction (1943.)

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