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ROBERT WARREN PENN
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 Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was a poet, novelist and critic, and the only writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for both fiction and poetry. He was a three-time recipient of the award, honored for All the King’s Men (1947), Promises: Poems 1954-1956 (1958) and Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978 (1979).
Warren
published 12 volumes of poetry, 10 novels, a volume of short stories, several volumes of literary criticism, social commentaries and texts, and plays. With Cleanth Brooks, he wrote Understanding Poetry (1938), a textbook that widely influenced New Criticism. He served as a Chancellor of the
Academy
of
American Poets
from 1972 until 1988, and was appointed the first U.S. Poet Laureate in 1986. His other honors include the National Book Award, the National Medal for Literature, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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