Robert Penn Warren Born: 24-Apr-1905 Birthplace: Guthrie, KY [1] Died: 15-Sep-1989 Location of death: Stratton, VT Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified Remains: Buried, Willis Cemetery, Stratton, VT
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet, Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: First US Poet Laureate [1] Third and Cherry Streets, Guthrie, KY.
Father: Robert Warren Mother: Anna Penn Wife: Emma Brescia (div.) Wife: Eleanor Clark
University: BA, Vanderbilt University (1925) University: MA, University of California at Berkeley (1927) University: BLitt, Oxford University (1930, on a Rhodes Scholarship) University: Yale University (graduate study) Professor: Southwestern College, Tennessee (1930-31) Professor: English, Vanderbilt University (1931-34) Professor: English, Louisiana State University (1934-42) Professor: English, University of Minnesota (1942-50) Professor: Yale University (1950-)
US Poet Laureate (1986-87) Southern Review Co-Founder and Editor (1935-42) Rhodes Scholarship MacArthur Fellowship Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1947 for All the King's Men Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1958 for Promises Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1979 for Now and Then National Book Award for Poetry 1958 for Promises Emerson Thoreau Medal 1975 National Medal of Arts 1987 Tonsillectomy
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Huey Long (28-Sep-1985) · Himself
Author of books:
At Heaven's Gate (1943, novel) All the King's Men (1946, novel, based on politician Huey Long) The Circus in the Attic (1948, short stories) World Enough and Time (1950, novel) Brother to Dragons (1953, poetry) Band of Angels (1956, novel) Promises (1957, poetry) Selected Essays (1957, essays) The Cave (1959, novel) You, Emperors, and Others (1960, poetry) Audubon, A Vision (1969, poetry) Now and Then (1978, poetry) Rumor Verified (1981, poetry) Chief Joseph (1983, poetry)
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