Warren, Robert Penn

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Name
Warren, Robert Penn Gender: M
born on 24 April 1905 at 07:00 (= 07:00 AM )
Place Guthrie, Kentucky, 36n39, 87w10
Timezone CST h6w (is standard time)
Data source
Bio/autobiography
Rodden Rating B
Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data s_su.18.gif s_taucol.18.gif 03°40' s_mo.18.gif s_capcol.18.gif 10°41 Asc.s_gemcol.18.gif 08°43'



Robert Penn Warren

Biography

American poet, novelist, and literary critic, noted as one of the founders of New Criticism. 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. He taught at Yale, retiring in 1973.

His first marriage was to Emma Brescia. His second marriage was in 1952 to Eleanor Clark, with whom he had two children, Rosanna Phelps Warren (born 1953) and Gabriel Penn Warren (born 1955). 

Warren died of complications from prostate cancer on 15 September 1989 in Stratton, Vermont.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

Events

  • Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1946 (Book released)
  • Work : Retired 1973
  • Work : Prize 1980 (Presidential Medal of Freedom)
  • Death by Disease 15 September 1989 (Prostate cancer, age 84)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes him in New York Herald Tribune Book Review (11 October 1953) reprinted in "Conversations with Robert Penn Warren" by Gloria L. Cronin and ‎Ben Siegel (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2005), p. 6: "To begin at the beginning, I was born at 7 A.M., April 24, 1905, in Guthrie, in southern Kentucky..."

Categories

  • Family : Relationship : Mate - Noted
  • Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Two)
  • Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (One daughter, one son)
  • Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease (Prostate cancer)
  • Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 84)
  • Vocation : Writers : Critic (Literary)
  • Vocation : Writers : Fiction (Novels)
  • Vocation : Writers : Poet
  • Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
  • Notable : Awards : Public Service
  • Notable : Awards : Pulitzer prize (Three)