| Chronology |
| 1905 |
Robert Penn Warren born in Guthrie,
Kentucky, April 24 |
| 1921 |
Graduated from Clarksville, Tennessee, high
school; enrolled at Vanderbilt University |
| 1923-1925 |
Active in Nashville "Fugitive Group" |
| 1925 |
Graduated from
Vanderbilt University |
| 1925-1927 |
Graduate student
at University of California (M.A., 1927) |
| 1927-1928 |
Graduate student
at Yale University |
| 1928-1930 |
Rhodes Scholar,
Oxford (B.Litt., 1930) |
| 1929 |
John Brown:
The Making of a Martyr |
| 1930 |
Assistant
professor of English, Southwestern College,
Memphis |
| 1931-1934 |
Assistant
professor of English, Vanderbilt University |
| 1934 |
Assistant
professor of English, Louisiana State
University; associate professor, 1936 |
| 1935 |
Thirty-Six
Poems; founded with
Charles W. Pipkin and Cleanth Brooks the
Southern Review |
| 1939 |
Night Rider;
Guggenheim Fellow
(second fellowship awarded 1947-48) |
| 1942 |
Eleven Poems
on the Same Theme; professor of English,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis |
| 1943 |
At Heaven's
Gate |
| 1944 |
Selected
Poems, 1923-1943; Chair of Poetry, Library
of Congress |
| 1946 |
All the Kings
Men (Pulitzer Prize) |
| 1948 |
The Circus in
the Attic and Other Stories |
| 1950 |
World Enough and
Time; professor of playwrighting, Yale
University (resigned 1956) |
| 1953 |
Brother to
Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices |
| 1955 |
Band of Angels |
| 1957 |
Promises:
Poems 1954-1956 (Pulitzer Prize) |
| 1959 |
The Cave;
elected to the American Academy of Arts and
Letters |
| 1960 |
You, Emperors,
and Others: Poems 1957-1960 |
| 1961 |
Wilderness;
The Legacy of the Civil War; professor of
English, Yale University |
| 1964 |
Flood: A
Romance of Our Time |
| 1965 |
Who Speaks for
the Negro? |
| 1966 |
Selected
Poems: New and Old 1923-1966; Bollingen
Prize in Poetry |
| 1968 |
Incarnations:
Poems 1966-1968 |
| 1969 |
Audubon: A
Vision; National Medal for Literature; Van
Wyck Brooks Award |
| 1970 |
Selected Poems
of Herman Melville: A Reader's Edition |
| 1971 |
Meet Me in the
Green Glen; Homage to Theodore Dreiser; John
Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry |
| 1974 |
Or
Else-Poem/Poems 1968-1974 |
| 1975 |
Democracy and
Poetry; received the Emerson-Thoreau Award
|
| 1976 |
Selected Poems
1923-1975 |
| 1977 |
A Place to
Come To |
| 1978 |
Now and Then:
Poems 1976-1978 |
| 1979 |
Brother to
Dragons: A New Version |
| 1980 |
Robert Penn
Warren Talking: Interviews 1950-1978; Being Here |
| 1981 |
Jefferson
Davis Gets His Citizenship Back |
| 1989 |
Died from cancer,
September 15 |
