I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

Novelist, poet, critic, teacher
                          

Selected Works:

John Brown: The Making of a Martyr - 1929
Thirty-six Poems - 1936
An Approach to Literature - 1938, with Cleanth Brooks and John Thibaut Purser
Understanding Poetry - 1939, with Cleanth Brooks
Night Rider - 1939. Novel
Eleven Poems on the Same Theme - 1942
At Heaven's Gate - 1943. Novel
Understanding Fiction - 1943, with Cleanth Brooks
Selected Poems, 1923 – 1943 - 1944
All the King's Men - 1946. Novel
Blackberry Winter: A Story Illustrated by Wightman Williams - 1946
The Circus in the Attic, and Other Stories - 1947
Fundamentals of Good Writing: A Handbook of Modern Rhetoric - 1950, with Cleanth Brooks
World Enough and Time - 1950. Novel
Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices - 1953
Band of Angels - 1955. Novel
Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South - 1956
Promises: Poems: 1954 – 1956 - 1957
Selected Essays - 1958
The Cave - 1959. Novel
Remember the Alamo! - 1958. For children
The Gods of Mount Olympus - 1959. For children
How Texas Won Her Freedom - 1959. For children
All the King's Men: A Play - 1960
You, Emperors, and Others: Poems 1957 – 1960 - 1960
The Legacy of the Civil War - 1961
Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War - 1961. Novel
Flood: A Romance of Our Time - 1964. Novel
Who Speaks for the Negro? - 1965
Selected Poems: New and Old 1923 – 1966 - 1966
Incarnations: Poems 1966 – 1968 - 1968
Audubon: A Vision - 1969. Book-length poem
Homage to Theodor Dreiser - 1971
John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection - 1971
Meet Me in the Green Glen - 1971. Novel
American Literature: The Makers and the Making - 1974, with Cleanth Brooks and R.W.B. Lewis
Or Else: Poem/Poems 1968 – 1974 - 1974
Democracy and Poetry - 1975
Selected Poems: 1923 – 1976 - 1977
A Place to Come to - 1977. Novel
Now and Then: Poems 1976 – 1978 - 1978
Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Vorces - A New Version - 1979
Being Here: Poetry 1977 – 1980 - 1980
Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back - 1980
Rumor Verified: Poems 1979 – 1980 - 1981
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce - 1983. Book-length poem
New and Selected Poems: 1923 – 1985 - 1985
Portrait of a Father - 1988
New and Selected Essays - 1989
The Collected Poems - 1998, edited by John Burt
All the King's Men: Three Stage Versions - 2000
All the King's Men: Restored Edition - 2002, edited by Noel Polk
The Poets Laureate Anthology - W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.                          

Mother Anna Penn
Father Robert Warren                          

One of the founders of New Criticism.
Charter Member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers Founded The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935
Rceived the 1947 Pulitzer Prize -  All the King's Men  - 1946
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979

Robert Penn Warren is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.

All the King's Men, starring Broderick Crawford, won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1949.