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Robert Penn Warren

1905 - 1989

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Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, literary critic and professor at Yale University. He was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Penn Warren is the 3,174th most popular writer (down from 2,870th in 2019), the 4,598th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,631st in 2019) and the 365th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Robert Penn Warren ranks 3,174 out of 7,302. Before him are Ronald Harwood, Farag Foda, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Aemilius Macer, Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, and Andre Norton. After him are Irena Veisaitė, Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma, William Langland, Léon Daudet, Tomas Venclova, and Alfred Andersch.

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Among people born in 1905, Robert Penn Warren ranks 168. Before him are Rózsa Péter, Hans Freudenthal, Michael Tippett, Jan Gies, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, and Ramiro Ledesma Ramos. After him are Ivan Eklind, Theodor Oberländer, Erich Neumann, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Ferenc Farkas, and Osvaldo Pugliese. Among people deceased in 1989, Robert Penn Warren ranks 131. Before him are Robert Webber, Guy Laroche, Brian Naylor, Harold Jeffreys, Nilufer Hanımsultan, and Archduchess Charlotte of Austria. After him are Pavel Kurochkin, Martti Talvela, Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, Joe Spinell, Edoardo Amaldi, and Colin Clark.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Penn Warren ranks 4,598 out of 20,380. Before him are Howard Da Silva (1909), Jeremiah P. Ostriker (1937), Paul Volcker (1927), Dean Smith (1932), Charles Evans Hughes (1862), and Andre Norton (1912). After him are Minnie Riperton (1947), Joey Jordison (1975), Milton L. Humason (1891), Douglas Diamond (1953), Peter MacNicol (1954), and Randall Duk Kim (1943).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Robert Penn Warren ranks 365. Before him are Morgan Robertson (1861), Andrea Dworkin (1946), Brian Herbert (1947), Robert Ressler (1937), Edward Gorey (1925), and Andre Norton (1912). After him are Robert Anderson (1917), Henry Darger (1892), Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897), E. E. Smith (1890), Amy Lowell (1874), and Zora Neale Hurston (1891).

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