With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Robert Penn Warren
Fiction, Journalism/Non-Fiction, Poetry
1905 – 1989
- Biography/Description of Work
Poet, novelist, and literary critic, Robert Penn Warren was one of the founders of New Criticism. A Southerner, he taught at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Southwestern College in Memphis and Louisiana State Univesity where he co-founded The Southern Review in 1935. Of ten novels, “All the King’s Men” won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947, and two of his sixteen volumes of poetry won Pulitzer Prizes in 1958 and 1979. Warren also authored critical and historical essays, studies of authors and of race relations. He was named the nation’s first Poet Laureate in 1986 and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980. From the 1950s on, Warren lived with his author wife, Eleanor Clark, in Fairfield, where he wrote in an old onion barn.
- Sources view
- Rachel Carley, Robert Penn Warren Article - New York Times - 1969-12-16, Robert Penn Warren Article - New York Times - 1986-2-27, Robert Penn Warren Obituary - New York Times - 1989-9-16 [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Penn_Warren, ] [ http://www.robertpennwarren.com/biography.htm, http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/17 ] Lehman, Eric D. and Amy Nawrocki. 2014 Literary Connecticut. Charleston: The History Press.
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