Robert Penn Warren's Accomplishments

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Robert Penn Warren was an American writer and poet, born in Guthrie, Kentucky on April 24th, 1905 (Zworykin 121). He received a considerable university education, receiving a master’s degree from the University of California and then a doctorate degree at Oxford University, all by the year 1930 (Zworykin 121). Throughout his career, Warren received many awards for his achievements, eventually becoming the first person to receive the Pulitzer Prize in both fiction and in poetry (“Robert Penn Warren”). Additionally, two of Warren’s books, “All the King’s Men,” (1949), and “Band of Angels,” (1957), were made into film adaptations, with “All the King’s Men” being remade once more in 2006 (“Films”). As seen in almost all of his work, Warren had