Author
Robert Penn Warren
April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989 · United States
Poet, Novelist, Writer, Literary critic, Journalist, Children's writer
Titles on list
5
Total weeks
62
Peak rank
#2
Biography
- Born
- April 24, 1905 · Guthrie
- Died
- September 15, 1989 · Stratton
- Nationality
- United States
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Education
- Vanderbilt University, University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, University of Oxford, Clarksville Senior High School, Clarksville High School
Awards & Honours
- 1928Rhodes Scholarship
- 1939Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1943Shelley Memorial Award
- 1947Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
- 1947Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1957Rome Prize
- 1957The Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism
- 1958Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- 1958National Book Award
- 1967Bollingen Prize
- 1979Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- 1980Presidential Medal of Freedom
- 1981MacArthur Fellows Program
- 1985Robert Frost Medal
- 1987National Medal of Arts
- United States Poet Laureate
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