Robert Penn Warren
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, born in Guthrie, Kentucky in 1905, was one of the
twentieth century's most eminent American writers. He was a distinguished
novelist and poet, literary critic, essayist, short story writer, and
coeditor of numerous textbooks. He also a founding editor of The Southern
Review, a journal of literar ....
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.... troubles, and his responsibility
for a family of half-brothers and sisters when his father died, Robert
Franklin Warren forsook his literary ambitions and devoted himself to more
lucrative businesses. Robert Warren did not always have ambitions to become
a writer, in fact, one of his earlier dreams was to become an adventurer on
the high seas. This fantasy might have indeed come about, for his father
intended to get him an appointment to Annapolis, had it not been for a
childhood accident ....
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