| Robert Penn Warren Born: 24-Apr-1905
Birthplace: Third and Cherry Streets, Guthrie, KY
Died: 15-Sep-1989
Location of death: Stratton, VT
Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified
Remains: Buried, Stratton, VT
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet, Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: First US Poet Laureate Father: Robert Warren
Mother: Anna Penn
Wife: Emma Brescia (div.)
Wife: Eleanor Clark
University: BA, Vanderbilt University (1925)
University: MA, University of California at Berkeley (1927)
University: BLitt, Oxford University (1930, on a Rhodes Scholarship)
University: Yale University (graduate study)
Professor: Southwestern College, Tennessee (1930-31)
Professor: English, Vanderbilt University (1931-34)
Professor: English, Louisiana State University (1934-42)
Professor: English, University of Minnesota (1942-50)
Professor: Yale University (1950-)
US Poet Laureate 26-Feb-1986
Southern Review Co-founder and Editor, 1935-42
Rhodes Scholarship
MacArthur Fellowship
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1947 for All the King's Men
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1958 for Promises
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1979 for Now and Then
National Book Award for Poetry 1958 for Promises
Emerson Thoreau Medal 1975
National Medal of Arts 1987
Tonsillectomy
Author of books:
At Heaven's Gate (1943, novel)
All the King's Men (1946, novel, based on politician Huey Long)
The Circus in the Attic (1948, short stories)
World Enough and Time (1950, novel)
Brother to Dragons (1953, poetry)
Band of Angels (1956, novel)
Promises (1957, poetry)
Selected Essays (1957, essays)
The Cave (1959, novel)
You, Emperors, and Others (1960, poetry)
Audubon, A Vision (1969, poetry)
Now and Then (1978, poetry)
Rumor Verified (1981, poetry)
Chief Joseph (1983, poetry)
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