Vanderbilt University opened Warren College, one of the first 2 residential colleges at the university, along with Moore College
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Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, literary critic and professor at Yale University. He 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 fo…
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culture · American poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905–1989) · poet · novelist · writer · literary critic · journalist · children's writer · also Robert Penn Warren, Warren
Born 24 April 1905 · Died 15 September 1989 · Q312720
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2005· 1 entry
At an event featuring Harold Bloom and Warren's daughter poet Roseanna Warren
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1989· 3 entries
Died 1989-09-15.
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“The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.”
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Received a $480,000 Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
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1987· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Arts (1987).
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Was awarded the National Medal of Arts
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded United States Poet Laureate (1986).
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1985· 1 entry
Won Robert Frost Medal (1985).
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded MacArthur Fellows Program (1981).
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Warren was selected as a MacArthur Fellow and later was named as the first U
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1980· 2 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Jimmy Carter (1980).
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Warren was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1979).
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1977· 1 entry
Warren was awarded the St
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1974· 1 entry
The National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture, the U
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Bollingen Prize (1967).
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1958· 3 entries
Awarded National Book Award (1958).
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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1958).
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For Promises: Poems 1954–1956 and in 1979 for Now and Then
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1957· 2 entries
Awarded Rome Prize (1957).
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Awarded The Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism (1957).
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1956· 1 entry
“To a Little Girl, One Year Old, in a Ruined Fortress”
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1952· 2 entries
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).
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To Eleanor Clark, with whom he had two children, Rosanna Phelps Warren (born 1953) and Gabriel Penn Warren (born 1955)
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1947· 2 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1947).
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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men (1947).
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1944· 1 entry
Awarded United States Poet Laureate (1944).
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1943· 1 entry
Awarded Shelley Memorial Award (1943).
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1939).
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1930· 1 entry
Studied at University of Oxford, Bachelor of Letters (1928–1930).
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1928· 2 entries
Awarded Rhodes Scholarship (1928).
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Studied at Yale University (1927–1928).
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1927· 1 entry
Studied at University of California, Berkeley, Master of Arts (1927).
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1925· 1 entry
Studied at Vanderbilt University, Bachelor of Arts (1925).
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1921· 1 entry
His left eye was removed after an accident, which canceled his appointment to the U
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1905· 1 entry
Born 1905-04-24.
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