Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren
Warren in 1968
Born	(1905-04-24)April 24, 1905 Guthrie, Kentucky, U.S.
Died	September 15, 1989(1989-09-15) (aged 84) Stratton, Vermont, U.S.
Occupation	Writer critic
Education	Vanderbilt University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA) Yale University New College, Oxford (BLitt)
Genre	Poetry novels
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1947) Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1958, 1979) Bollingen Prize (1967) Robert Frost Medal (1985)

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 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.^[1]