Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Robert Penn Warren : oral history, 1974.
Creator: | Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 | Project: | Southern intellectual leaders (A) project. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript 147 pages Sound recording 2 reels | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
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Scope and ContentsFamily background and childhood in rural Kentucky; education at Vanderbilt, Berkeley and Yale; participation in the Agrarian movement; writing JOHN BROWN, NIGHT RIDERS, AT HEAVEN'S GATE, PROUD FLESH, and ALL THE KING'S MEN; editing the SOUTHERN REVIEW, 1935-42; reflections on southern politics, violence and racial thought; impressions of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Frank L. Owsley, Donald Davidson and others
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