Warren, Robert Penn
Warren, Robert Penn( 1905–89),born in Kentucky, by heritage had deep associations with the issues and traditions of the South, early indicated by his affiliation with the regionalist group that published The Fugitive while he was a student at Vanderbilt University (B.A., 1925). After receiving an M.A. at the University of California (1927) and further study at Yale and as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Warren, while establishing himself as an author, began an academic career that included posts as a professor at Louisiana State University (1934–42), Minnesota (1942–50), and Yale (1950–73). The range and variety of his talents as well as a continuing concern with his regional background are evident in his early works: John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (1929), a biographical study; Thirty-Six Poems (1935); and Night Rider (1939), a novel treating moral issues relating to the fight between tobacco growers and...
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