Other than being a well known poet Robert Warren Penn Was also a big literary critic, as well a supporter of Racial integration working with big names during the civil rights movement such as Dr.king and Malcolm X.
Robert Penn Warren was born in Guthrie Kentucky on April, 24 1905. He went to Guthrie high school and the age of 15 he then graduated the same year, going into college the following school year. Right before Robert went into college he suffrent an eye injury which resulted in the removal of his eye. His eye incident happened when him and his brother were throwing rocks which resulted in the lose if his eye. Then soon at 16 years old he went to Vanderbilt University where he soon graduated at the age 19. After graduating he went to teach at LSU several years later; then he and several other authors or literature teacher had created a book of poems which was very successful and caught the eye of many people. This book of poems is what started all of his success as a writer and critic which soon had helped him to create or write many more books. …show more content…
When he was a freshman in college at vanderbilt he found his science class boring but found english way more interesting. His interest in literature is what had ended up having him changing his career path. Then later on after he wrote his book of poems, he wrote another book. One piece of writing named “All the king's men” was so remarkable that it had ended up winning the Pulitzer award. Not long after winning that award his piece “All the king's men” and another piece called “Band of angels” had both been made into movies. After that he had wrote a couple more pieces of literature but nothing to serious and had just stuck to being literature critic. Yet when the civil rights movement came around he became a big part participant and decided to look into it and wrote a book about