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Robert Penn Warren, the first official poet laureate of the United States, was a three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. He was the only writer to win the prize in poetry "Promises: Poems, 1954-1956" in 1958, and "Now and Then: Poems, 1976-1978" in 1979 as well as fiction "All the King's Men," 1947. Robert Penn Warren was born in Guthrie, KY, on April 24, 1905. In 1921, he enrolled at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, where a composition class taught by poet John Crowe Ransom helped him see his world as "the stuff of poetry." hide information

Robert Penn Warren, the first official poet laureate of the United States, was a three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. He was the only writer to win the prize in poetry "Promises: Poems, 1954-1956" in 1958, and "Now and Then: Poems, 1976-1978" in 1979 as well as fiction "All the King's Men," 1947. Robert Penn Warren was born in Guthrie, KY, on April 24, 1905. In 1921, he enrolled at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, where a composition class taught by poet John Crowe Ransom helped him see his world as "the stuff of poetry." This stamp was issued by the Postal Service on April 22, 2005 as part of the Literary Arts series .