Robert Penn Warren (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Biography

Robert Penn Warren was born to Anne Ruth Penn Warren on April 24, 1905, in Guthrie, a tiny community of twelve hundred people in southwestern Kentucky. His father, Robert Franklin Warren, was a banker—according to Warren, a “misplaced” person who gave up early aspirations of a literary nature for more practical aims of making money. Warren's relationship to his father was a subtle and important one for its impact on his fiction and poetry, which often dramatized father-son relationships. Warren had a deep admiration for his father's rectitude, especially his...

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