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4 unusual facts about Robert Penn Warren


Robert Penn Warren

Warren was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, which is very near the Tennessee-Kentucky border, to Robert Warren and Anna Penn.

All the King's Men became a highly successful film, starring Broderick Crawford and winning the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1949.

Robert Warren

Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989), American poet, novelist, and literary critic

Solomon P. Sharp

Sharp's murder inspired fictional works, most notably Edgar Allan Poe's unfinished play Politian and Robert Penn Warren's novel World Enough and Time (1950).


Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor

He was also friends with Robert Penn Warren, Randall Jarrell, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, James Thackara, Robie Macauley and other significant literary figures of the time.

Willie Stark

Willie Stark is an opera in three acts and nine scenes by Carlisle Floyd to his own libretto, after the novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, which in turn was inspired by the life of the Louisiana governor Huey Long.


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Political drama

A famous literary political drama which later made the transition to film was Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men.