Warren, Robert Penn - Stratton, VT

Robert Penn Warren

Willis Cemetery

Stratton, VT

N 43° 01.391 W 072° 53.867

The grave of Robert Penn Warren is marked by a rectangular granite headstone which is inscribed:

ROBERT PENN
WARREN

BORN GUTHRIE KENTUCKY
APR. 24, 1905

DIED STRATTON
SEPT. 15, 1989

Setting

Robert Penn Warren was educated at Vanderbilt University where he received an AB degree, the University of California, Berkeley where he received a MA degree, New College, Oxford where he received a BLitt. and Yale University.

He began his writing career in 1921 when he published the poem Prophecy. He went on to a prolific writing career where he excelled as a poet, novelist and non-fiction author. He is most famous for writing the novel All the King's Men in 1946, for which he was awarded the 1947 Pulitzer Prize. He also was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. Thus, he is the only author to receive a Pulitizer Prize for both fiction and poetry.

During his life, Robert Penn Warren wrote:

Poems:

Old and Blind (1931)
Thirty-Six Poems (1935)
Eleven Poems on the Same Theme (1942)
Selected Poems, 1923–1943 (1944)
Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices (1953)
Promises: Poems: 1954–1956 (1957)
You, Emperors, and Others: Poems 1957–1960 (1960)
Selected Poems: New and Old 1923–1966 (1966)
Incarnations: Poems 1966–1968 (1968)
Audubon: A Vision (1969)
Or Else: Poem/Poems 1968–1974 (1974)
Selected Poems: 1923–1975 (1976)
Now and Then: Poems 1976–1978 (1978)
Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices - A New Version (1979)
Being Here: Poetry 1977–1980 (1980)
Rumor Verified: Poems 1979–1980 (1981)
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce (1983)
New and Selected Poems: 1923–1985 (1985)
Portrait of a Father (1988)
The Collected Poems (1998)
The Poets Laureate Anthology (2010)

Novels:

Night Rider (1939)
At Heaven's Gate (1943)
All the King's Men (1946)
Blackberry Winter (1946)
The Circus in the Attic, and Other Stories (1947)
World Enough and Time (1950)
Band of Angels (1955)
The Cave (1959)
Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War (1961)
Flood: A Romance of Our Time (1964)
Meet Me in the Green Glen (1971)
A Place to Come to (1977)
All the King's Men: Restored Edition (2002)

Nonfiction:

John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (1929)
An Approach to Literature (1938)
Understanding Poetry (1939)
Understanding Fiction (1943)
Fundamentals of Good Writing: A Handbook of Modern Rhetoric (1950)
Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South (1956)
Selected Essays (1958)
The Legacy of the Civil War (1961)
Who Speaks for the Negro? (1965)
Homage to Theodor Dreiser (1971)
John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection (1971)
American Literature: The Makers and the Making (1974)
Democracy and Poetry (1975)
Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back (1980)
New and Selected Essays (1989)

Plays:

All the King's Men: A Play (1960)