Robert Penn Warren Writer

Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) 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 influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel 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.

Personal facts

Birth date	April 24, 1905
Birth place	Guthrie Kentucky
Date of death	September 15, 1989
Place of death	Stratton Vermont
Education	Vanderbilt University University of California Berkeley University of Oxford Yale University