1879 Robert Penn Warren

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Marker reads, A native of Guthrie, Warren was one of nations most prolific writers, a world-renowned man of letters. Graduate of Vanderbilt Univ., summa cum laude, 1925; member of the Fugitives writers group. Rhodes scholar at Oxford, 1928-1930; and twice a Guggenheim Fellow. He was professor of English at La. State, Minnesota, and Yale universities. Reverse, Robert Penn Warren, 1905-1989 - Designated First Poet Laureate of the United States by Congress on February 26, 1986. To date only person to receive a Pulitzer Prize in both fiction and poetry. Warren was a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize: 1947 in fiction for All the Kings Men; 1958 in poetry for Promises; 1979 in poetry for Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978.