Robert Penn Warren

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Robert Penn Warren (born April 24, 1905 in Guthrie , Todd County , Kentucky , † September 15, 1989 in Stratton , Vermont ) was an American writer and literary critic. He published 16 volumes of poetry and 10 novels. He was a Pulitzer Prize winner and a poet laureate of the United States from 1944–45 . His novel All the King's Men (German: " The game of power ") is considered one of the most important political novels in American literature of the 20th century.

Life

Warren, the eldest of three children and the son of banker Robert Franklin Warren and teacher Anna Ruth Penn Warren, was gifted. In the spring of 1921 he lost his left eye in an accident. The following summer he published his first poem, Prophecy . In the fall of 1921, at the age of 16, he went to Vanderbilt University in Nashville .

In 1950 Warren was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1951 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 1962 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society .

He was married twice, from 1929 to 1951 to Emma "Cinina" Brescia. From his second marriage to Eleanor Clark came his children, Rosanna Phelps Warren and Gabriel Penn Warren.

Warren died of cancer on September 15, 1989 at his Vermont home.

Fonts

Novels

  • Night Rider, Houghton, (1939)
  • At Heaven's Gate, Harcourt, (1943), German "All wishes of this world" From d. American. by Helmut Degner . Gütersloh: Bertelsmann 1959
  • All the King's Men, Harcourt, (1946), (Pulitzer Prize), German: "The Game of Power". From the American. by Ilse Krämer . Complete revised and supplemented by Philip Laubach-Kiani, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-453-43125-1 . Further German issues under the titles: "Der Gouverneur" and "Des Königs Tross".
  • World Enough and Time, Random House, (1950)
  • Band of Angels, Random House, (1955), German "Amantha" From the American. by Helmut Degner, Gütersloh: Bertelsmann 1957
  • The Cave, Random House, (1959), Ger. "The Johntown Cave" From the American. by Helmut Degner, Gütersloh: S. Mohn, 1961
  • Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War, Random House, (1961)
  • Flood: A Romance of Our Time, Random House, (1964)
  • Meet Me in the Green Glen, Random House, (1971)
  • A Place to Come To, Random House, (1977)

Poetry

  • Thirty-six Poems, Alcestis Press, (1936)
  • Eleven Poems on the Same Theme, New Directions, (1942)
  • Selected Poems: 1923–1943, Harcourt, (1944)
  • Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices, Random House, (1953), (Book Length)
  • Promises: Poems 1954–1956, Random House, (1957), (Pulitzer Prize)
  • You, Emperors, and Others: Poems 1957-1960, Random House, (1960)
  • Selected Poems: New and Old, 1923-1966, Random House, (1966)
  • Incarnations: Poems 1966–1968, Random House, (1968)
  • Audubon: A Vision, Random House, (1969) (Book Length)
  • Or Else: Poem / Poems 1968–1974, Random House, (1974)
  • Selected Poems: 1923-1976, Random House, (1977)
  • Now and Then: Poems 1976–1978, Random House, (1978), (Pulitzer Prize)
  • Being Here: Poetry 1977–1980, Random House, (1980)
  • Rumor Verified: Poems 1979–1980, Random House, (1981)
  • Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, Random House, (1983), (Book Length)
  • New & Selected Poems: 1923–1985, Random House, (1985)

Warren plays

  • Robert Penn Warren: Blood on the Moon. A play in 3 acts . Erwin Piscator worked on the stage . German version by Erwin Piscator and Hellmut Schlien. Emsdetten: Lechte o. J. [1958]. ( All the King's Men )

Film adaptations

Secondary literature

  • Joseph Blotner: Robert Penn Warren: A Biography. New York: Random House 1997.
  • John Burt: Robert Penn Warren and American Idealism . New Haven, Conn. [u. a.]: Yale University Press 1988.
  • James A. Grimshaw (ed.): Robert Penn Warren: A Documentary Volume . Detroit [u. a.]: Thomson Gale 2006.
  • James A. Grimshaw (ed.): Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men: Three Stage Versions . Athens, Ga .: Univ. of Georgia Press 2000.
  • Randolph Runyon: The Taciturn Text: The Fiction of Robert Penn Warren . Ohio State University Press, Columbus OH 1990. ISBN 0-8142-0530-5 ( digitized version on the publisher's pages in full access)

Web links

Commons : Robert Penn Warren  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members: Robert Penn Warren. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 10, 2019 .
  2. ^ Member History: Robert Penn Warren. American Philosophical Society, accessed February 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Warren, Robert Penn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Guthrie , Todd County , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1989
Place of death Stratton , Vermont