Robert Penn Warren was born in Guthrie, Todd County, Kentucky, on April 24, 1905. He entered Vanderbilt University in 1921, where he became the youngest member of the group of Southern poets called ...

The mere potential for union success was so threatening that the day before the vote began, several of the Southern ...

Joseph Blotner, Faulkner’s biographer, has now brought his considerable abilities to bear on the life and work of Robert Penn Warren (1905–89), who began as a member of the extraordinary group of ...

Mark Lemon's “largest painting in the world that shows the entire battle” will be displayed at the Booth Western Art Museum ...

Other times, the works I turn to are more tangible books off the shelf. A personal favorite is All the King’s Men by Robert ...

But the law can only do so much. As novelist Robert Penn Warren pointed out in “All the King’s Men,” a classic study of unrestrained power, the law is like a twin-sized blanket on a double bed.

He later resigned, bringing to a close one of the odder sex scandals in recent memory, something like a soft-core porno by Robert Penn Warren. Impeachment proceedings for the governor were to ...

Based on Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All the King’s Men chronicles the triumphant rise and fall of a corrupt politician played by Broderick Crawford in an Oscar-winning ...

Dr. Butts’ research interests are in the areas of Contemporary and Twentieth Century American literature, the literatures of the American South and the American West, especially the works of Robert ...

his engagement with the natural environment as well as his friendships with Randall Jarrell and Robert Penn Warren. Thomas Austenfeld, University of Fribourg Thomas Austenfeld is Professor of American ...

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This original KET production explores the life and career of Kentucky's most acclaimed writer. He penned the 1946 novel "All the King's Men" which earned the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Advertisement ...