Biography

Robert Penn Warren was born on April 24, 1905 in Guthrie, Kentucky, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for All the King's Men (2006), All the King's Men (1949) and Band of Angels (1957). He was married to Eleanor Clark and Emma Brescia. He died on September 15, 1989 in Stratton, Vermont, USA.

Pictured on a 37¢ USA commemorative stamp in the Literary Arts series, issued in his honor on 22 April 1995, two days before the 100th anniversary of his birth.

HE was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1987 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.

Novelist, poet, critic and teacher. His best-known novel, "All the King's Men" (1946), won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947. The screen adaptation, All the King's Men (1949), won the Academy Award for best motion picture of 1949. In 1986, Warren became the first poet laureate of the United States.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 877-881. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.