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Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the King's Men is one of the undisputed classics of American literature. Fifty years after the novel's publication, Warren's characters still stand as powerful representations of the moral dilemmas faced by individuals in positions of power. All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren that was first published in Summary Read our full plot summary and analysis of All the King's Men, scene by scene break-downs, and more. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in He received the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men () and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in and
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