Robert Penn Warren an author, a poet, a father, and most important of all that is the father of literature. Robert Penn Warren was born on April 24, 1905, Guthrie, KY and died on September 15, 1989, Stratton, VT. Robert Penn Warren was most famously known for his story All The King’s Men which was written in 1946 and then turned into a film in 1949. All the King’s Men was a very big success and was criticized positively. Robert Penn Warren was a one-hit literary wonder with his book, All the King’s Men, because the rest of his books didn’t win awards , he mostly worked on poems, and he wrote news articles. Even though Robert Penn Warren was criticized positively on his his book he was a one-hit literary wonder with his book, All the King’s Men, because the rest of his books didn’t win awards. Warren had written six books, two of them earlier than All the King’s Men, and three after those books never won an award. Warren would particularly take a long amount of time to make a story. Once he took about 5 to 6 years to think about how to lay his story out (Paris Review.) Warren wrote up three novels that were not published in the 1930’s. All the King’s Men, was about a man named Willie Stark being money driven in the depression era trying to take down a former governor for not seeing his full potential having…show more content… Warren started his own review know as The Southern Review which was very popular. When Warren started the review he was working with a man named Cleanth Brooks and a man named Charles W. Pipkin and both decided to work on his staff. Sadly all good things must come to an end when they had to close down the review due to world war two but then reopened in 1965 under 2 men who go by the names of Lewis P. Simpson and Donald E. Stanford. The review was praised upon by Time “superior to any other journal in the English
