Warren's mother's family had roots in Virginia, having given their name to the community of Penn's Store in Patrick County, Virginia, and she was a descendant of Revolutionary War soldier Colonel Abram Penn. Warren was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, very near the Tennessee- Kentucky border, to Robert Warren and Anna Penn. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 19. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Robert Penn Warren (Ap– September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.
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