Quick Facts

• NAME: Robert Penn Warren
• OCCUPATION: Civil Rights Activist, Literary Critic, Poet
• BIRTH DATE: April 25, 1905
• DEATH DATE: September 15, 1989
• EDUCATION: Vanderbilt University, University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, New College, Oxford
• PLACE OF BIRTH: Guthrie, Kentucky
• PLACE OF DEATH: Stratton, Vermont

Best Known For

American poet Robert Penn Warren was one of the founders of New Criticism and is the only person to have won the Pulitzer Prize for both fiction and poetry.