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A native of Guthrie, Robert Penn Warren was one of the nation's most prolific writers and a world-renowned man of letters. He graduated from Vanderbilt Univ. and was a member of the Fugitives writers group. He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford from 1928 to 1930 and twice a Guggenheim Fellow. He served as professor of English at Louisiana State, Minnesota, and Yale universities. Congress designated him the First Poet Laureate of the United States on February 26, 1986. He was, to date, the only person to receive a Pulitzer Prize in both fiction and poetry, winning three Pulitzer Prizes: in 1947 in fiction for All the King's Men, in 1958 in poetry for Promises, and in 1978 in poetry for Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978.
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